Although Lu Xiaoxian and Jiang Xiaotong persuaded the two of them two or three, they were always used to doing their duty. After a long time, I can only go with them.

"The ugly lady sees her in-laws, no wonder you have to go through so much trouble!" Lu Xiaoxian joked with a smile.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Jiang Xiaotong said angrily.

Jiang Xiaotong's residence is not far from Yonghe Building, Lu Xiaoxian and Jiang Xiaotong are talking and laughing while strolling, and Ying'er and Uncle Hai are following closely behind, carrying all kinds of gifts for Chen Song and his wife.

When they arrived at the backyard of Yonghe Building, Chen Song and Yu, who were already waiting, were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths when they saw Lu Xiaoxian and Jiang Xiaotong.

Jiang Xiaotong entered the house, the wine and food had already been set up in the house, and there was not even a person, so he couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that just a few of us celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Why didn't Xiaoyi, Zhang Meng and Cen come here? ”

Chen Song glanced at Lu Xiaoxian, and explained to Jiang Xiaotong with a smile: "It's not that they don't come, I have something to say to the two of you today, so I broke them up!" ”

"Something you want to tell us?" Jiang Xiaotong felt unusual, and asked tentatively, "Father-in-law, what do you need to hide from them?" ”

"It's important!" Chen Song pointed to the chairs that had already been set up on the side, and said to Lu Xiaoxian and Jiang Xiaotong: "You two sit first!" ”

The two of them sat down as they were told!

Chen Song said solemnly: "Xiaoxian, Xiaotong, I can see that both of you like each other, but you didn't pierce this layer of window paper." Today is August 15th, my wife will make a table of wine for you, if you two have no opinion, I will be the master, today's banquet is your engagement banquet! ”

Chen Song's words came too suddenly, Jiang Xiaotong was surprised and delighted, and his mind suddenly became blank.

"Xiaoxian, do you like Xiaotong?" Chen Song asked.

"I like it!" Lu Xiaoxian said generously.

"Are you willing to engage with Xiaotong?"

Lu Xiaoxian turned his head to look at Jiang Xiaotong and replied, "Of course I am willing, but I don't know what Xiaotong means?" ”

Chen Song nodded, and also looked at Jiang Xiaotong: "Xiaotong, you tell the truth to your father-in-law, do you like Xiaoxian?" ”

"Yes!" Jiang Xiaotong's voice is like a mosquito.

"Then are you willing to engage Xiao Xian?"

"Yes!" After the two words came out, Jiang Xiaotong's face was flushed with shame.

Chen Song smiled and said, "Since you both agree, I will make the decision for you, and I will be engaged for you today!" ”

Yu Shi sighed on the side: "It would be nice if Xiaotong's father was here!" ”

Jiang Xiaotong told Chen Song and Yu about his life experience, and they knew that Jiang Xiaotong's mother had passed away and his father was still alive.

"That's right!" Chen Song seemed to think of something, and said to Jiang Xiaotong, "Xiaotong, it's been so long since you came to Chang'an, why didn't you see your father come to see you?" ”

mentioned the sad thing, Jiang Xiaotong couldn't help but turn red in his eyes.

"Xiaotong, if you have anything on your mind, tell your father-in-law, maybe I can help you get rid of one or two!" Chen Song persuaded.

Jiang Xiaotong sobbed and told Chen Song about his and his father's back-and-forth, and the more he talked, the more aggrieved he became, "Father-in-law, you say, how can you be a father like this?" ”

"That's what happened!" After hearing this, Chen Song did not comfort Jiang Xiaotong, but asked, "Xiaotong, what do you think of your father-in-law?" ”

"The father-in-law is very good!"

"Compared to your father?"

"Ten times better than my father!"

Chen Song smiled: "Listening to your words, I remember an incident I encountered a few years ago!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian asked, "Father-in-law, what's the matter?" Can you tell us about it? ”

"It was a winter, and a son-in-law quarreled with his parents over a trivial matter and ran away from home in anger. It was dark, and he was cold and hungry and had nowhere to go. I found him when he was closing, and when I saw that he was pitiful, I let him in the store to warm up, and by the way, I made him a bowl of steaming noodles! After he finished eating, he thanked again and again, saying that he didn't bring any money, and he would send it another day! I asked him why he didn't come home so late, and it took him a while to tell me about running away from home after a quarrel with his parents. After listening to it, I told him a truth, I only made him a bowl of noodles, and he was so grateful to me, and his parents didn't know how much they paid since they were young, but he never thanked them, how can he be worthy of his parents? Brother Gongzi was ashamed when he heard this, and after leaving me, he went straight home. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaotong was already in tears, no need to ask, she must have thought of her father!

Chen Song sighed and said, "Xiaotong, how long have you been with me, and you think that I am ten times better than your father, do you think this is fair to your father?" ”

Lu Xiaoxian hurriedly handed over a handkerchief: "Yes, Xiaotong, no matter how bad your father is, you can't deny him, it will make him very sad!" ”

Jiang Xiaotong couldn't cry: "Father-in-law, I know that I was wrong!" ”

Chen Song nodded and said, "It's good to know your mistakes, next time I see your father, I can't do this again!" ”

"I see! Father-in-law! ”

Seeing this, Lu Xiaoxian quietly glanced at Uncle Hai.

Uncle Hai nodded slightly, turned around and went out.

"Tong'er!" A voice came from the doorway.

Jiang Xiaotong raised his head and found Jiang Yuqiao standing in front of him.

"Tong'er, can you forgive your father?" Jiang Yuqiao asked in a trembling voice.

"Daddy!" Jiang Xiaotong threw herself into Jiang Yuqiao's arms and cried bitterly.

Lu Xiaoxian and Chen Song glanced at each other, and both of them had smiles on their faces.

……

Listening to Lu Xiaoxian's words, Lu Wuxian was silent.

After a long time, Lu Wuflaw asked, "Is it really engaged?" ”

Lu Xiaoxian nodded.

"Do you like her?"

Lu Xiaoxian nodded again.

Lu Wufeng sighed and said, "In that case, congratulations!" ”

Sending Lu Xiaoxian away, Lu Wuxian stared at Lin Xuan and said, "I didn't help you, don't be angry!" ”

Lin Yan smiled slightly: "As far as I am now, it is the same whether I help or not." As long as he's happy, I'll be satisfied! ”

As he said this, Lin Xuan's tears slid down his face.

Lu Wuxian felt a tingling in her heart, and when she wanted to persuade Lin Xuan again, the soothing music sounded in her ears, which was the song "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" that Lu Xiaoxian taught her.

……

Lu Xiaoxian did what he said, and really renamed Cen's Money Village as "Tiangao Thick Money Village".

He didn't ask about the business matters, and handed them all over to Cen Shaobai and Liu Qi to take care of.

Liu Qi worked very hard, and soon changed from a layman to a competent shopkeeper, and did his best to the big and small things of the money bank, which made Cen Shaobai very satisfied.

Most of the customers of the money bank are small shopkeepers and small traders, Liu Qi pays attention to integrity, no matter how much the transaction amount, all are warmly received, and a large number of small customers are tried to absorb the scattered money and silver, accumulate a lot, and revitalize the bulk business of large customers.

In order to gain a long-term foothold in Chang'an and continue the business for a long time, Liu Qi adopted the method of small profits and more loans, which was lower than the interest rate of other money banks.

The trading of Tiandi Houqian Village is very prosperous, and sometimes more than a dozen accounts can be put in a day, and the amount is not small.

Cen Shaobai was very happy in his heart, he didn't expect it to be so easy to make money by running a money village in Chang'an City.

However, the more he went later, the more Cen Shaobai felt that something was wrong with this sign. As the number of people who came to the door increased, most of the cash in the bank was loaned away, and seeing that the silver in the bank was about to run out, he realized that he was happy a little too early.

There is no doubt that someone must be playing tricks in the shadows.

The biggest suspicion is Taifeng Money.

Cen Shaobai wanted to go to Taifeng Qianzhuang to intercede, but after thinking about it, he couldn't! If you go to someone's house, they won't admit it, besides, people are just trying to bring you down, how can they heed your plea?

But if Qianzhuang is to close down like this, Cen Shaobai is unwilling, this is not only a matter of the size of the loss, the key is that he doesn't want to leave others with a laughing stock.

After thinking about it, he couldn't come up with a suitable solution, and in desperation, Cen Shaobai had no choice but to send someone to invite Lu Xiaoxian.

Hearing Cen Shaobai finish what happened, Lu Xiaoxian was silent.

It's not that he hasn't borrowed money from others, the Long Dart Bureau is in trouble, he has raised silver for Long Zhuang, and now that the money village is in trouble, of course he has to find a way.

However, at the beginning, he only borrowed tens of thousands of taels of silver, but now, it is estimated that there are no three or five hundred thousand taels, which will not solve the problem. He weighed his weight and knew that he definitely didn't have the ability.

Seeing Lu Xiaoxian's embarrassment, Cen Shaobai couldn't help but sigh: "Son, you don't have to be embarrassed, you can only take one step at a time, if it really doesn't work, we will admit the frieze, and we will lose it, and the big deal is to withdraw the rest of the money, and we will close the door and not do it." ”

"Closed?" Lu Xiaoxian flatly refused, "No, you must not close the door!" ”

"But ......"

"No, but!" Lu Xiaoxian made up his mind, no matter how difficult it was, he couldn't let the money village close, he asked Cen Shaobai: "Just say it, how much silver do you need?" ”

Cen Shaobai shook his head and said, "It's not certain, if they keep doing this, no amount of silver will be enough." ”

"I can't care so much, let's talk about the present, how much silver do you need to support it?"

Cen Shaobai thought for a moment and said: "At least 200,000 taels, I'm afraid it can only last for half a month!" ”

"I'll figure out how to deal with the silver!"

"Childe...... And what about ......" Cen Shaobai wanted to speak and stopped.

"What else?" Lu Xiaoxian smiled bitterly, "When is this, if you have anything to say, just say it!" ”

"If we had savings and loans, we wouldn't be as embarrassed as we are now. But I don't know who is spreading rumors that our money bank has no money anymore, and it will be closed soon. Originally, many guests wanted to come to us to deposit money, but now they dare not come. ”

"So that's what happened!" Lu Xiaoxian suddenly realized, "No need to ask, this must be the ghost of those people in Taifeng Qianzhuang, on the one hand, they released rumors, so that people did not dare to come to us to deposit money, and on the other hand, they arranged for people to keep lending money from us, in order to consume our family funds and let us have to close the door!" ”

"Yes! They work both ways, making it hard for us to deal with! Cen Shaobai said with a sad face.