Zhong Xuanlan waited for Wang Xuannian to fall asleep before getting up and leaving, and went to the study of the Qingyou Courtyard.

Zhong You and Liang Zhi were about to fall asleep before they saw the figure coming in a hurry.

After everyone sat down, Zhong You immediately reported: "Big boss, we have been robbed of a lot of business recently, and the Liu family and the Chu family have jointly suppressed our business. ”

Zhong Xuanlan frowned slightly, raised his head, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"At the beginning of the year, the Chu family bought a catty of dim sum and gave half a catty, and we implemented the practice of buying a catty and getting a catty free, sold it for five days, and then repaired the store. The Chu family ended the event when they saw that we were closing, and we opened the door after three days to launch new products, and business picked up. In the two months when the big boss went out, the Chu family lowered the price again, and the Liu family's restaurant also began to implement price reduction activities, attracting a lot of students, and the second master of the Liu family and the fourth young master of the Chu family deliberately found fault in our restaurant. ”

Zhong Xuanlan knocked on the table, squinted his eyes, pondered for a while, and said: "The dim sum shop will sell one catty at cost price tomorrow and give half a catty, and after selling the inventory, it will be closed and repaired." The food flavor building implemented new dishes, arranged the private room, and went to find some Confucian pen and ink to hang in the private room. And it's time for Bamboo Pavilion to open. ”

"Okay." Zhong You smiled slightly, the township test and the meeting test are about to happen.

"By the way, go to the warehouse and get a jar of peach blossom wine and send it to the Lu family, and let the Lu family help suppress the Chu family cloth village for a few days."

"Yes."

Xia Zhi asked: "The big boss wants to win Boss Li's long-term cooperation?" But aren't we now the cloth merchants who have already taken down Nanliang? ”

"The people who went to sea are back."

Xia Solstice understood and nodded.

Seeing that the discussion of this matter was over, Qiu Zhi reported: "Big boss, the location of the merchant selection has begun to be arranged, and the list of twenty-one merchants in seven states has been delivered. As he spoke, he handed the list to Zhong Xuanlan, Zhong Xuanlan took it and looked at it, nodded, added the five imperial merchants, and handed it to Qiu Zhi again.

Zhong You said: "Don't we participate in the big boss?" ”

Zhong Xuanlan said: "Does my Zhong family still need these?" ”

The three shook their heads.

Zhong Xuanlan said: "Set the event on the day before the township trial list. ”

"Yes."

A few people in the study discussed the activity again, and the time passed in a hurry, and it was dawn in a blink of an eye......

Waiting for people to leave, Zhong Xuanlan pinched his eyebrows, was stunned for a while, and then got up to freshen up and go to the backyard dining room to eat.

The four of them had a morning meal together, Zhong Xuanlan explained some things to Zhong Tinghao, and went out.

Wang Xuannian and Zhong Xuanli took a dozen or so family members to Xinyi Garden to repair the yard.

At this time, in the hall of Liu's mansion, everyone in the Liu family was eating tea and chatting, and everyone invariably mentioned Zhong Xuanlan.

Liu Da said: "Second brother, be careful when you go out recently, don't make trouble again." ”

Liu Xu didn't approve in his heart, so he quickly agreed, and said, "Big brother, I know." ”

Liu Yuan knew that he didn't agree with Liu Xu's indifferent expression, and explained loudly: "Second uncle, this time we calculated the Wang family, and also united with the Chu family to suppress the Zhong family's business, and the Zhong family will definitely return it." ”

Liu Xu listened, thinking that he was making trouble with Zhong Tinghao, and that whoever that girl came forward was the one who suffered from it, so he said, "I'll be careful." ”

Liu Xu listened to it, but things still found him.

No, Liu Xu was knocked down as soon as he went to the street, and was helped up by a well-wisher, who inadvertently touched the money bag.

Liu Xu didn't pay attention, and was in a hurry to reason with the person who hit him, "Uncle Guo's road is so wide, you have long eyes and a top of your head, right?" ”

Zhong Tinghao took a deep breath and silently recited in his heart, "One thousand taels, I have been grounded for a month."

After reciting it three times, he said, "I ran after the thief, and who knew that you would come out of the corner." ”

"Then you shouldn't apologize?" Liu Xu smiled sinisterly, deliberately stimulating Zhong Tinghao.

Zhong Tinghao said: "I'm sorry. ”

Liu Xu was stunned, was the way he went out today?

Zhong Tinghao smiled: "Do you want me to invite you to a meal as an atonement?" So saying, he stepped forward to take the people to dinner.

Liu Xu stepped back in horror and didn't let Zhong Tinghao pull him.

Zhong Tinghao saw that people rejected him, so he said: "Alas, whether to go or not, you are talking." ”

Liu Xu remembered his nephew's words this morning, and felt that it was better to go.

So, Liu Xu turned around and left.

Zhong Tinghao said provocatively: "Hey, Liu Er, you won't be cowardly, right?" I'm afraid I'm poisoning, tsk, Liu Er, you're a coward, coward. ”

Zhong Tinghao knows Liu Xu, just as Liu Xu understands him, if the two families have no business grievances, they should be friends.

Liu Xu turned around and faced Zhong Tinghao and said, "Eat it, whoever is afraid of whom." Let's go. ”

Zhong Tinghao took people to the newly opened Zhuxuan and said, "How about this?" ”

Liu Xu nodded.

So, the two went to Zhuxuan for dinner.

In the afternoon, the news spread, and Liu Er's family liked Zhongjia Zhuxuan, and he stayed for most of the day.

It's definitely best to get a meal that your competitors like.

So many people flocked to it, and for a while, Zhuxuan was empty.

At this time, in the box, Liu Xu wanted to bite Zhong Tinghao to death.

The reason is that the person who makes an atonement has lost his money.

and his money was lost.

But Zhuxuan's shopkeeper is not allowed to owe debts.

I saw Zhong Tinghao sitting there drinking tea slowly, not in a hurry to leave, and he didn't send anyone to get the silver to settle the bill.

He was slightly angry, but he wanted to leave.

So he sent Zhu Xuan's men to Liu's house to withdraw the money, but he didn't come back after going for most of the day.

When Liu Xu came out of the Zhuxuan private room, everyone looked at him in surprise, some people were still talking, the rumors outside really did not lie, I really didn't expect the Liu family to like the Zhong family's restaurant food, this Zhuxuan's food must be the best, and I have to come often in the future.

Liu Xu saw that many people were looking at him, and he was puzzled, feeling that he was a bit like a monkey at this time.

He flicked his sleeves, snorted, left Zhong Tinghao, and walked outside angrily.

Seeing this, Zhong Tinghao smiled happily, his silver is in hand, well, hurry home and get the silver.

Humming a little song, he walked slowly towards the Zhong Mansion.

On this day, in addition to Zhong Tinghao inviting Liu Xu to eat in Zhuxuan, which caused a lot of uproar, several imperial merchants were not calm.

In the flower hall in the front yard of the Lu Mansion, the master of Lu looked at the peach blossom wine on the table, had a headache, looked at Zhong You, and had an even more headache, and said, "What is the matter with your family?" ”

Zhong You smiled and said, "The big boss of Chu, the big boss of my family wants you to help suppress the Chu family." ”

Lu Da said: "Suppress the Chu family? It's not something that can be solved with a jar of wine. ”

Zhong You slandered in his heart: Fox. Said: "I remember that last time, the Chu family seemed to rob the Lu family's timber merchant. ”

Lu Da squinted his eyes and glanced at Zhong You, not many people knew about this matter, but it was actually investigated, and the Zhong family deserved to be the head of the imperial merchants.

Zhong You smiled and said, "By the way, the timber merchant is here again." ”

Master Lu scolded secretly: Fox.

"The big boss will go to negotiate with the Li family's cloth merchant, do you see the big boss Lu?"

Master Lu nodded and agreed.

At the same time, in Liu's study, Liu Da and Liu Shao were talking about things, and someone came to report that Zhu Xuan's men came to get the silver and the news outside.

Liu Da was stunned, slapped on the table, "snapped", frightened people, and yelled: "Liu Er, you are an unconscious guy, take Lao Tzu's words as wind in your ears, Lao Tzu is not finished with you." ”

The corners of Liu Yuan's mouth hooked slightly, he returned it so soon, tsk, it seems that he still needs to add fire. After retracting his thoughts, he said, "Dad, don't worry, aren't there still people locked up in the prison that day?" ”

Master Liu thought about it and smiled slyly.

Liu Yuan left the study and went to the backyard to find the third princess......

And in the study of Chu Mansion, the master of Chu pinched his eyebrows, looked at his quarreling sons with an irritated expression, the green tendons in his temples jumped suddenly, and with a "snap", the study instantly quieted down.

The four of them looked at Chu Da at the same time.

Master Chu's face was ugly, his eyes were stern, and he commanded solemnly: "Now the eldest and second sons are responsible for cooperating with the timber merchants, and the third and fourth sons are responsible for cooperating with Boss Li." If something goes wrong with what you are responsible for, the family law will take care of it, cough cough cough. ”

Chu Dashao said, "Dad, are you okay?" ”

Master Chu shook his head and said, "You all go." ”

The four of them looked at Chu Da Dang worriedly, and left when they saw that he was fine.

The master of Chu sat there alone and looked at the fallen leaves in the courtyard and was stunned, hehe, my Chu family has survived in the cracks for so long, and it will definitely not decay.

Here in the study room of the Zhongfu Qingyou Courtyard, the head of the store is in charge of going in and out to report things.

Zhong Xuanlan sat there reading the account book while listening to the shopkeeper's report, and occasionally asked a few words, if the shopkeeper answered wrongly, he would either be scolded or deducted monthly money, which made the shopkeepers more and more cautious.

Uncle Zhong hurriedly walked to the door and said, "Big boss, the old princess of Prince Gong's mansion is dying, Prince Gong hopes you can go." ”

"Click." With a bang, the brush broke.

Zhong Xuanlan came back to his senses, threw away the brush, got up and ordered, "The rest of the people will come back another day." The man had already walked out of the doorway.

"Uncle Zhong, send someone to get my father back."

After the words fell, Zhong Xuanlan quickly walked back to Shuangxuan Courtyard, and ordered someone to inform Wang Xuannian and Zhong Xuanli. Walked into the room, took out a small rectangular box carved with the word "Xinyi" from the dark compartment under the dresser, slowly opened the box, and there was a pale pink peach blossom hosta lying inside, touched the hosta, then closed the box, put it in the sleeve pocket, and left. As soon as he got out of the courtyard, he saw Wang Xuannian coming back in dirty clothes, and asked him to hurry up and change his clothes.

After the change of clothes and grooming, the three of them went to the door of the house, and met Zhong Tinghao who was rushing back at the gate of the house, Zhong Tinghao didn't care to change clothes and freshen up, and got into the carriage with them to go to Prince Gong's mansion.

Along the way, the carriage sped towards Prince Gong's mansion. At about a stick of incense, the four of them appeared at the gate of Prince Gong's mansion.

As soon as the butler waiting at the gate of the palace saw that it was the Zhong family, he immediately stepped forward to salute, led the person in, and went straight to Songtao Temple.