The night is like water, the sky is full of stars, and it is dazzling.

Bai Susu got out of the carriage and walked into the gate of Baifu, wearing a plain white long dress, which looked like an epiphany blooming quietly in the night.

After completing the accounts in Bairun Building today, with Arabic numeral symbols and statistical tables, it was much more convenient to check the accounts this time, and even easily found out that the shopkeepers of some shops had embezzled public funds and made false accounts, which were disposed of by her with an iron fist.

When I returned to Baifu, it was almost late at night, and although I was a little tired, I didn't feel as empty and lonely as before.

It's as if a figure has walked into my heart, and it has become solid from blur to solidity little by little.

Faced with this situation, Bai Susu neither deliberately erased it, nor actively catered to it, but just wanted to go with the flow and let it develop, because that person made her have a strong curiosity and an indescribable feeling.

When Bai Susu walked back to her courtyard absentmindedly, she found an old man and a servant in her exquisite courtyard, drinking tea and enjoying the moonlight.

"Grandpa, it's so late, haven't you slept yet?"

Bai Feng first turned his head and glanced at Bai Susu, originally she was young and beautiful, and she should enjoy the leisure and happiness of the girl before she left the pavilion, but now the family responsibility is on her shoulders, and she is busy from morning to night, and she came home exhausted in the middle of the night, and she still has some pity in her heart, as well as deep helplessness.

This Bai Fengxian also has three sons under his knees, the eldest son Bai Shouren, who was originally a candidate to inherit the family business, but he had an accident ten years ago, broke his legs, and could only be a wheelchair, he only has one daughter, that is, Bai Susu, who belongs to the big house.

The second room is Bai Shouyi's family, and he is also Bai Susu's second uncle, this person's name has the word "righteousness", but he is not righteous at all, he is black, has a poor reputation, is good at gambling money, likes to find flowers and ask willows, and is quite disliked by Bai Fengxian. Bai Shouyi has a son, who is sixteen years old this year, only one year younger than Bai Susu, but his IQ is ten times worse than her, and he is a gentleman, which is much more unbearable than Su Chen before.

Although the name of Sanfang Bai Shouzhi has a "wisdom" in his name, he has a mediocre IQ, belongs to an honest man who is wooden, hard-working, typical of well-developed limbs and simple-minded kinds, managing a small shop and grocery store, barely making do, and absolutely unable to be at the helm of a big family.

Therefore, Bai Fengxian only assigned Bai Shouzhi some errands to transport goods, such as taking people to see the kiln, transporting porcelain clay, and traveling as a team leader when distributing goods to shops in Jinling.

But Bai Fengxian is close to seventy years old, his health is not as good as day by day, and the family is worried about internal and external troubles, so he can't help but be anxious about the successor of the head of the family. In the younger generation, Bai Susu can only be pulled out and cultivated, planning to let her be able to support the Bai family for ten or twenty years, so that the Bai family will be stable, and when the time is ripe in the future, the position of the head of the family will be passed on to a qualified male successor of the lineage, which is the mission given to Bai Susu by the old man Bai.

"Are you coming back so late?" Bai Fengxian asked with concern.

Bai Susu nodded and said, "It's about to enter April, and recently Su Su has been checking the accounts of the previous three months and checking them so that he can know what to do." ”

"No big deals, right?"

Bai Susu shook his head and said, "Some accounting flaws have been found, but I can deal with it, please rest assured." ”

Bai Fengxian was still very confident in this granddaughter's business ability, so he didn't ask in detail, but changed the topic and said, "You seem to be very close to Su Chen's stinky boy recently?" ”

When Bai Susu heard Su Chen's name, his expression was slightly moved, his eyes changed from tired to a little more bright, and he replied, "Well, let's talk about some business cooperation." ”

"Talking to him about business, is this kid surnamed Su reliable?" Bai Fengxian obviously still has some opinions about this Su Chen, and he came to the door twice to persuade him to get married, but he was politely refused, and his hot face was attached to his cold ass, which made Bai Fengxian very unhappy.

Bai Susu's voice and smile appeared in his mind, as well as those whimsical ideas, novel remarks, etc., the corners of his mouth overflowed with a trace of arc, and he smiled faintly: "It's okay, you can cooperate!" ”

"What are you laughing at?" Bai Fengxian originally talked about Su Chen with a cold face, but found that his granddaughter, who had always been cold, actually smiled.

Bai Susu immediately straightened her face, shook her head and denied: "Is my granddaughter smiling?" ”

Bai Feng coughed first, quite speechless, when did his granddaughter, who had an almost demonic business mind, also began to deceive herself and pretended to be stupid.

"What project are you working on, why haven't I heard about it?"

Bai Susu replied calmly: "Soap and soap, several spirits brewed, and the latest mosquito repellent flower water......"

After Bai Fengxian heard this, he didn't understand it, shook his head and said: "These are the auxiliary businesses of the Bai family, and the side things, grandpa hopes that you can focus on porcelain making." My Bai family in a hundred years ago, the town of the domain, after the rebellion of the Yellow Nest, from the north to the south to Runzhou, the ancestor was the Tang Dynasty Lincheng Xing kiln chief craftsman, but also in the general as a supervisor served, and then the north was in the chaos, the ancestor only went south, this white porcelain manufacturing process, he knows the most, so in Runzhou City quickly gained a foothold, developed into a porcelain giant. ”

Xing kiln was burned in the Northern Dynasty, declined in the Five Dynasties, was one of the seven famous kilns in the porcelain industry in the Tang Dynasty, and was also the earliest kiln to fire white porcelain in northern China. Represented by Xingyao white porcelain, it is comparable to the Yue kiln celadon in the southern region, one green and one white go hand in hand, and it has won the reputation of "southern green and northern white".

Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty has such a description in the "Book of Tea": "Xing porcelain is silver, Yue porcelain is jade, Xing porcelain is snow, Yue porcelain is ice, Xing porcelain is white and brown Dan, and the more porcelain is green and brown green." ”

In fact, the ancient Chinese porcelain, first there was celadon, and then to the Northern Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties, on the basis of firing celadon, craftsmen continued to select raw materials with low iron content to create the original white porcelain, and then gradually invented cosmetic white porcelain, the process continued to reform and innovate, and the appearance of fine white porcelain in the middle of the Tang Dynasty was tributed to the royal family and exported overseas.

Bai Susu listened carefully, she had heard many times about the rise of the family and the development history of white porcelain, but Bai Fengxian said it so solemnly, she still did not have the slightest impatience, and listened to her grandfather retell the importance of family porcelain again.

Bai Fengxian continued: "The porcelain firing technology of the Ding family comes from the master craftsman of the Yue kiln, so the celadon of the Ding family is also superior; In the past ten years, white porcelain has also been continuously fired, but the enamel is coarse, which cannot be compared with the fine white porcelain of our Bai family. However, they have been digging several of our key porcelain craftsmen in private, and it is not excluded that they will coerce and lure, once the Ding family also masters the core porcelain burning skills of our Bai family, when the time comes, the blue and white porcelain will be owned by the Ding family at the same time, and it will run and encircle our Bai family, occupy our business, and finally swallow my Bai family. ”

"Grandpa, I'll pay attention." Bai Susu replied quietly.

When Bai Feng saw her, she was so calm and light, not in a hurry, and she also admired this granddaughter a little.

"Celadon and white porcelain kilns in various parts of the Northern Song Kingdom have also begun to be fired on a large scale, which will affect the foreign business of our Tang Dynasty porcelain, if only a new porcelain can be manufactured."

After Bai Fengxian sighed lightly, he got up to go back to the room, and said another sentence before leaving: "That kid Su Chen, when did he become so smart, he knew how to heal, and he could write words, and he made a lot of noise in the city. After saying that, he walked out of his granddaughter's courtyard.

Bai Susu stood in place, shook his head helplessly, and showed a shallow smile, Su Chen is proficient in medical skills and poetry, and he can also make people understand, if he still knows how to fire porcelain, then it is too ghostly, it doesn't exist!