The weather is gradually getting colder, and under the current situation, Ning Yi's daily life is probably not much different from the previous days.

Every morning, I ran to the Qinhuai River, met with Nie Yunzhu, and occasionally talked about the arrangements for the day, and in the afternoon, I either went to the Zhuji main store, or came here to have a cup of tea and listen to the piano. Recently, there was always a light bulb in the middle of the time he spent with Nie Yunzhu. Of course, to be precise, it seems that Yuan Jin'er, who has nothing to do, will always sit next to him and listen to Yunzhu play the piano and sing, the relationship between Ning Yi and Yunzhu has been clarified, and it may be possible to develop in a very impure direction, but in this case, Ning Yi and Yunzhu have to be pure, which makes Ning Yi feel very regretful.

Of course, taking a step back, having two Oiran-level beauty NVs sitting next to them is not something that ordinary people can enjoy, Yunzhu's playing and singing is a must, if Yuan Jin'er doesn't have anything to do to go down and dance or something, it looks like a very enjoyable thing. But Yuan Jin'er didn't take advantage of him, she sat beside Ning Yi with her chin crossed like a boy, listening with relish, looking at herself, like a xiǎo monk. If Yunzhu left to get a tea plate or something like that, she wouldn't follow, just sit next to Ning Yi, serious, very hateful.

For this reason, after everyone sneered at each other a few times, the two had a few open and honest conversations, most of which were when Nie Yunzhu left, staring at each other.

"I'll go down and dance later, xiǎo girl." There is something wrong between Ning Yi and this guy anyway, so there is no need to pick many good words.

"Don't dance, I'm just sitting here listening to Sister Yunzhu sing...... You are content, do you know how much it cost to let Sister Ben Xiǎo accompany you in Jinfeng Lou before? ”

Ning Yi rolled his eyes, not having the same knowledge as her in this regard. Recently, Su Tan'er gave him the key, and he has become a white face who can take money at will, but it is not easy to take it, so he has been relatively poor recently, and he does not want to talk about money: "Tsk, you can't do this, this is the ...... of bad people's marriage"

"How can there be a bad marriage, aren't you and Sister Yunzhu friends who are not very upright and gentlemanly? Then that's what you want, but I don't allow you to do any bad things. You are not a good person, you have a wife at home, can you leave that Su Tan'er at home and be with Sister Yunzhu? ”

"It's honestly hard." Ning Yi thought for a while, then looked at the river on the side and muttered to himself, "There are many problems, and men are not good things, they always eat from the bowl and look at the ...... in the pot."

Originally, Yuan Jin'er wanted to say this, but seeing that Ning Yi was so shameless, her eyes widened for a while, and she looked angry, but she was also a long-tested person, and then she returned to her natural nature, and her mouth pouted: "Look at it, look at it, just let you look at it without eating." ”

Ning Yi also looked at her a little lazily: "I didn't really want to eat, but you reminded me like this all day long, and I suddenly became eager to eat, what should I ......do?"

"Then it depends on which of us is powerful...... Yuan Jin'er threw a wink at Ning Yi, very cute, Ning Yi laughed: "There are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves." ”

"Hmph." Yuan Jin'er didn't listen to this, and turned her face to the side. After that, she accompanied Ning Yi to listen to the song here, she was not afraid of boiling water anyway, Yun Zhu also felt interesting and didn't want to chase her, but turned around, and when Ning Yi left, she pestered Yun Zhu to complain desperately. It's just that in such a situation now, where would Yunzhu be angry about such a thing, even if Jin'er talked about Ning Yi's face of eating in the bowl and looking at the pot, Yunzhu also smiled and said nothing, and even asked him with interest if he really said this, as if "Does he really want to eat?" Jin'er was slightly discouraged.

In fact, Ning Yi doesn't care much about this kind of thing, as a man, he naturally thinks about it, and it is impossible not to think about it. Nie Yunzhu is beautiful, xìng is soft, and on his tough side, there is also something that attracts him very much, everyone has reached this point, Yunzhu is already willing to do these things, if there was no Jin'er suddenly appeared that day, it would have been the development of the boat.

But on the other hand, his mind doesn't have much to do with these things. On the Yunzhu side, he was more enjoying the feeling of interacting with Ning Yi. In all fairness, in this era, although there will be some làng comics, praised love stories or legends of loyalty, but the mode of getting along between male NVs, there can be no real equality or respect or anything, and many men even if they cherish their NVs, they are actually based on the model of today's era. ,

What Ning Yi can really make some people feel may be the extremely "eccentric" and "maverick" style of acting, he can walk away so carelessly after saving Nie Yunzhu but being slapped in the face, and then he can also chat with her at will, he can sleep in Nie Yunzhu's piano music for an afternoon, too lazy to show his awesomeness or talent. It's as if he can sit on the balcony with Su Tan'er for a night when he is bored, and he can make these jokes about begging for support.

Although casual, what Ning Yi showed was not a scoundrel or unscrupulous, he always had his own temperament and demeanor, just casual. The calm, reciprocal emotional component that is really mixed in these things, or the component that should belong to love and affection for them, is probably something that NV children in this era will never feel. Of course, whether you like it or not, it may be a matter of opinion, for example, a certain xiǎo girl named Zhou Pei feels that Ning Yi, the teacher, is really too imageless and not majestic enough.

Ning Yi and Yuan Jin'er sneered and fought openly and secretly, which often made Yunzhu a little busy, and when everyone was together, she seemed to return to the time when she used to be a singer, and she held the guqin and sang a song to cheer up. It's shameful for Jin'er to be just the audience's refusal to help, although Yunzhu feels a little complacent at this time, but Ning Yi, who is as shameful as Jin'er, will occasionally take out the festival and wipe it, and wait until Jin'er sometimes disappears for a few moments, but Yunzhu just smiled and said, "I'm happy in my heart." "I often take out the content of Jin'er's whistleblowing and share it with Ning Yi, of course, it's not too sensitive, like eating in the bowl and looking at the pot.

Of course, there is not much time to go to the Xiǎo Building in the afternoon, after school in the morning, either take the Xiǎo sisters and brothers of the Zhou family to teach more things in the laboratory next to the academy, study physical chemistry and the like, or walk around with Xiǎo Chan, eat something, sometimes go to Qin's house to talk and play chess, sometimes go to Zhuji's shop to sit, the city has been opened, the impact of the flood has entered the aftermath stage, once the alcohol ban is opened, Zhuji will take out the high liquor and sell it.

Occasionally, I will meet those people I knew in the mall before, the Wu family, the Xue family, or the other friends or enemies of the Su family, and I will also meet some shopkeepers of the Su family or something, so it seems that Jiangning City is not big, but everyone has nothing to say. For Ning Yi, these people either laughed or disdained, and Ning Yi probably understood and didn't bother to pay attention to them.

For example, not long ago, a young shopkeeper who was somewhat related to the Su family accused him of saying that the problems caused by the previous imperial merchant were all because he did not manage the formula of the cloth well.

There will be no shortage of similar things, and there will be enough psychological preparation earlier, whether it is some contradictions within the Su family's big house, or the strength of the second and third rooms, they have all emerged at this time. As long as you can spare no effort to hit the people related to Su Tan'er, it may be regarded as a victory. Although Ning Yi is now in the Su family, he has also let go of business matters, but after all, he is Su Tan'er's husband, as long as he can get him to leave the Su family by any means, it is obviously the most powerful blow to Su Tan'er.

Whether or not we can actually do it is another matter, but pressure from all sides is inevitable. Ning Yi's current response can naturally only be regarded as adopting a non-resisting attitude of shrinking, which is the only way, but the grievances in his heart will not be less, and one day it will break out, causing greater flaws. What people are waiting for now is this day, something is wrong with Ning Yi, and Su Tan'er, who is already a little anxious at the moment, will become even more unhappy. It's just that in the last few days, things seem to have become a little stranger.

"Recently, the five uncles and seven uncles in the clan have agreed to come down, and in half a month, the clan meeting will be held, and the problems of the family will be formally discussed in the recent period, and when the time comes, they will also bring up the issue of Tan'er getting involved in the family business as an NV son. The matter of the big house, within this year, should also be decided. ”

In the afternoon, in the courtyard where Su Zhongkan was, several shopkeepers and cousins close to the second room, including Su Chonghua, were sitting in the room drinking tea with Su Zhongkan, casually chatting about some recent things at home. In the past two and a half months, the Su family has been restless, and the business of the second and third rooms has also been greatly affected, but as a member of the second room, there is not much frustration at this time. Su Zhongkan said this, and a cousin over there opened his mouth. "I'm just afraid that the third uncle will still refuse to change his mind at that time, the situation of our Su family, even if the rest of the uncles and uncles are on our side, his old man will continue to drag on like this." ”

Su Yu ranks third among the older generation, and the third uncle this person is talking about at this time, which means him. Su Zhongkan shook his head.

"Dad shouldn't say anything more, if he really said that the situation at home in the past month, I'm afraid he would have already come forward. The big house, the two bedrooms and the three bedrooms, there will be a result after all, and his old man also understands. He is an old man who wants stability, and hopes that his family will be prosperous, and he is afraid that he is really angry about the affairs of his eldest brother, but the eldest brother is already like this now, and Tan'er has made such a mistake. Presumably, he will also feel that it is not good for the big house to be on the top of this tuyere, and if he really retreats, it will also save Tan'er and nephew nv and be able to live a good life in the future. ”

"That's how it should be." A cousin nodded, "Now in the family, everyone probably has such an understanding of this matter, these days, I have contacted several shopkeepers of the big house to ask about their intentions in the future, and most of them have also expressed their willingness to come to our side if they are drawn out of the big house." It's a pity that the most central few haven't expressed their stance yet, the shopkeeper Xi is young and vigorous, saying that he wants to live and die with the big house, heh, he also knows the thoughts of the second girl, and many people in the family also know the Tao. In addition, Liao Kaitai was reluctant to express his position......"

"If Shopkeeper Liao says the last word, I believe that many people will change the direction of the wind." One of the shopkeepers said, "But he is really loyal to the eldest master, and after that kind of incident, he has not complained about the big house...... Oh, I just told people a few nights after the annual meeting of the cloth bank that Ning Liheng's scholarly anger was too much, otherwise there would have been a glimmer of opportunity...... I haven't been able to find him in the recent past, so I can't start from this aspect......"

"Heh, Ning Liheng......" someone laughed.

Su Chonghua also leaned back in the chair with a smile: "This person has a talent to learn, but it's a pity that he doesn't know anything about business......"

"It's the shopkeeper Liao, I heard that he was sent to Beijing by Tan'er's nephew NV?"

Su Zhongkan nodded: "It's hard to say what you are doing, but it is indeed Shangjing who reported to the family, I laughed that day, this Tan'er nephew NV is not dizzy, knowing that the relationship between Jiangning and Jiangning cannot be done, and it is impossible to sue in Beijing?" But I'm guessing she had something else in mind. There is no real evidence to sue this kind of thing, and we don't have a very good way to go in Tokyo, and she should know that it is impossible. ”

"She seems to be staring at the layout of the Wu family recently, and wants to rush the goods at a low price to stir up the Luàn market, maybe she is really dizzy and wants to make a desperate bet?"

"Rushing the goods at a low price, that is to push our entire Su family into the fire pit, fools know what the result will be, and the entire cloth shop will unite to beat us." Su Zhongkan laughed, "Even if she wants to do it, her family won't allow it, this order was issued on the first day, I'm afraid there will be a clan meeting that night, and we will save trouble." ”

"But...... There have been some strange rumors out there in the past two days. As he spoke, a shopkeeper surnamed Ren thought and mentioned it.

"Huh? What rumors? ”

"The situation of the Wu family seems to be a little strange, and the situation in the past two days is a little different from the previous adjustment of supply and demand, chōu adjustment of the year cloth, and the other hand, talking about development with the rest of the merchants. There are rumors that they seem to have some problems with the Canjin brocade, in short, in the past two days, Wu Chenghou and these people seem to be a little absent-minded when talking about business, and some people from the Weaving Bureau even rumored that they are discussing with Dong Decheng to postpone the first batch of Canjin brocade goods. It's just that I can't confirm it yet. ”

"What's going on?" Su Zhongkan frowned.

"I'm afraid there are really some xiǎo problems, this kind of thing is common. Yesterday, it seemed that I heard that the Qin Zhongnan Qin steward who was in charge of the imperial merchants' distribution suddenly fell ill. Because of this and that relationship, there will always be some people who are divine. A shopkeeper shook his head and said.

The shopkeeper who spoke earlier also shook his head and laughed: "It should be, I think it should be the Xue family who is releasing news." This afternoon, I even heard someone say that the Wu family fell into my Su family's plan in the matter of imperial business, and Sister Erxiǎo was secretly calculating them, and now there is something wrong or something. ”

"Medium?" Su Zhongkan was stunned, then raised his head and smiled, "This must be the Xue family's rumors, if you really want to win something, it will be either the middle brother or the second girl, but the eldest brother has not yet been conscious in those days." Second girl, if she is pretending to be sick, maybe she may really be using something, but last time she was really sick from hard work, and suddenly fell ill, and Dr. Sun also said that she was too stressed, and her eldest brother suddenly fell...... There should be no doubt about it. If it was really a plan, I heard that everything was handled by Liheng at that time, could they have fallen into Liheng's strategy? When he said this, everyone smiled a little helplessly, to be honest, it was a little bad for his family to laugh at his own family, but for Ning Yi, they were already familiar with it, and others might say that this person was mysterious and couldn't understand anything. They are all people in a big house, and the people in the family know exactly what he does every day.

All day long, I would give lessons to a group of xiǎo children, tell stories that didn't make sense, and it was said that I was doing some xiǎo experiments on the left side of the road, playing Go, walking around and eating. Su Tan'er had almost never been in contact with business before he fell, and he no longer set foot in the cloth industry after that annual meeting. If such a man who had nothing to do all day really did something in that month, and was only discovered until this point, and endured all kinds of diaphragms and insults all day long without moving, then he did not look like a human being at all. What's more, if he really did something, all kinds of changes could happen in the next month and a half, and it was impossible to ignore it completely.

Everyone drank tea and laughed. After a moment, one of the cousins frowned: "But ...... What if it really is? ”

"Uh......" Su Zhongkan was slightly stunned, and the atmosphere in the room immediately became a little colder, and he looked at each other. The cousin thought for a moment.

At this time, I thought it was really strange, this Ning Liheng didn't care about business affairs before, and after the second girl fell ill, he really planned to go to Nòng Haolu, but after August 25, the second girl took over, and he suddenly chōu again, to say that he was hit that day, it is indeed possible. It's just that...... Chōu was inevitably too thorough, and after that, he didn't even bother with business matters at all, and others said that he scolded him for being indifferent and living his life as before, as if he was completely taking these things to heart, and he didn't see the slightest impact...... If he was really that angry, shouldn't he feel guilty or concerned about it in the future? Could his cultivation really be so powerful? ”

As soon as he said this, some strange feelings surged up in everyone's hearts. Indeed, in the past month and a half, there has been a battle between the family and the secret, the cháo has risen and fallen, and there are many things fighting inside and out, and everyone has put the greatest effort into it. Many people also set their eyes on this scholar, taking him as part of the fight, trying to keep giving him a face and being unhappy to squeeze him out of the Su family, at least to disturb Su Tan'er. But this couple, one is stubbornly doing stupid things that others can't understand in the center of the whirlpool, and the other ...... Now it seems like he lives as usual as if he doesn't take these things to heart.,Everyone has always thought he's putting up with it.,But it's really a bit too much to be able to endure it to this extent.。

But this was just a casual guess after all, and after a while, everyone shook their heads and laughed.

"How can that scholar be so powerful......

Su Chonghua probably knew Ning Yi the most, and he also smiled the most interestingly at this time: "Thinking too much, the Wu family just has some xiǎo problems, and you also take hearsay seriously." If Liheng is really so powerful, then it is not Ning Liheng that you and I know, but Zhuge Wolong, who was ordered to do something that should be done, and after doing it, he walked away, and everything was in his arms...... Do you know such people? However, he does have some literary talents, and his feelings are different from others, in the past, he was questioned by everyone because of his poetry, and he didn't bother to defend half a sentence, at this time he was subjected to some abuse and discussion, and if you want to endure it, it's still no problem......"

"Hehe, Chonghua is right, you guys, you guys are really thinking too much......"

While laughing, everyone immediately put these things behind them, but perhaps because they had talked about these things in the afternoon, when they met Ning Yi who was going home that evening, Su Zhongkan couldn't help but look at him a few more times. The young man in a green robe held an old book that he didn't know where he bought it from, and he looked at the sunset in the western sky as he walked, wondering what Lu Dao was thinking. Noticing his gaze, he turned around and smiled at him: "Second uncle." ”

The two sides said hello and staggered by, Su Zhongkan shook his head slightly. Indeed, he is too young, and he can see that he has a calmness that belongs to young people, but he can't see too much cunning, and this calmness is mostly pretended to be placed on young people. He has been subjected to so many eyes and abuse in the past month or so, and he is probably holding it in his heart, but he has to make such a appearance......

He thought so, and then put his mind on how to persuade the youngest of the several uncles tonight, the ninth uncle, and no longer think about these things about Ning Liheng. , xiǎo fights xiǎo trouble, it's always those xiǎo generation's affairs, he doesn't have to get involved.

In the same evening, in a restaurant room on the bank of the Qinhuai River, Wu Qilong and Xi Junyu met, the two of them could be regarded as a "chance encounter" on this day, and they still had things, such as Xi Junyu, who had recently come and gone with many Su family members and shopkeepers of the big house, trying to guide and lay out some things, and now it has an effect, and tonight it is also an appointment with a few Su family children to eat nearby, and there is not much time left at this time.

"Brother Xi, how are you doing?"

"Everything is fine, but it's your Wu family, something happened in the past two days?"

Wu Qilong looked at him for a while, and then took a sip of tea: "It's okay, I just want to ask you how you thought about what you said before." In the past month and a half, you have been trying to get the Su family to blame Ning Yi for the affairs of the imperial merchants, and I have also asked people to help you publicize it outside, the biggest problem with the affairs of the imperial merchants at this time is that Ning Yi has not kept the dyeing prescription, but it seems that the effect seems to be limited. What do you think now? ”

"Who says the effect is limited?" Xi Junyu smiled, "Things haven't reached the last step, who knows what will happen to Lu Dao?" Now the situation of the Su family, whether it is Su Tan'er or Ning Yi, they must be holding back their dissatisfaction in their hearts, Su Tan'er is now too busy to take care of herself, and if she wants to seize the most difficult opportunity, she has no time to deal with these feelings. Ning Liheng...... He's just been putting up with it, and one day he'll not be able to bear it...... Once she loses the big house in Su Tan'er's hands, she will remember what happened before, and when the time comes, she will remember that everyone is saying that it is Ning Liheng's fault......

"What if that's not the case?"

Xi Junyu shook his head: "That's not something I have to think about right now. ”

"Heh, it's really your xìng ......" Wu Qilong laughed, and then leaned back in his chair, "It's still the same sentence, my Wu family's big mén, open for you at any time, when necessary, please think about it a little." ”

Xi Junyu looked at him in silence, first nodded, then thought about it, and then said, "You're not quite right, could it be that there is something really wrong with you?" ”

"There is indeed a problem, there were several accidents in the workshop, and Uncle Qin suddenly fell ill, after all, things were too fast and too tight. We're thinking about postponing it with the Weaving Bureau, it's not a big problem, but it's not a good thing, and there aren't too many people who know the way, so I'm thinking it would be nice if there were more people available at home......"

"Mind your own business." After Xi Junyu finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Uqilong saw him out, then drank a cup of tea, and sat quietly in the room, and when the evening passed, and as the night turned into night, and the light became clear, a figure knocked on the mén, and came in. If there is someone from the Su family, he will definitely recognize the person in front of him, and the middle-aged man who entered the mén this time is also a steward of the Su family, surnamed Qi, named Guangzu, after closing the mén, he said hello to Wu Qilong, sat down on the seat on the side, and frowned.

"Uncle Qi, how is it?"

That Qi Guangzu looked at Wu Qilong: "Da Shao, is there really something wrong with the Wu family?" ”

Wu Qilong smiled and lowered his head and took a sip of tea: "Uncle Qi, if something really happens to my Wu family, it won't be good for you, right?" ”

"I talked to Shopkeeper Zhou yesterday." Qi Guangzu frowned, "Shopkeeper Zhou and Shopkeeper Bai are the most low-key and cautious among the shopkeepers of the Su family's big house, so Sister Erxiǎo asked the two of them to be responsible for the development of the dyeing formula. After the matter of the imperial merchants, the Su family was also checking themselves, and the two of them were also very neglected during this time, but after receiving the message from you, I had a drink with the shopkeeper of that week the night before, which really scared me...... Da Shao, what happened? ”

Wu Qilong's god became serious: "What happened, shouldn't I ask you?" Uncle Qi, what did the shopkeeper say that week? ”

He ...... He basically didn't say much. Wu Qilong refused to speak, and Steward Qi took a deep breath, "But during the whole drunken process, I didn't see that he was worried about anything, I didn't see it until yesterday, he seemed to be ...... Not only is he not worried about the investigation of the Su family, but he is not even worried about the entire situation of the Su family at the moment, this should obviously be the matter that he and the white shopkeeper are responsible for, Da Shao, there is only one sentence that I remember the most. ”

Qi Guangzu paused: "He was drunk at the time and said...... In the entire Su family, what he admires the most, except for the old lady, is ......"

"Heh, is it your second sister......" Wu Qilong could almost guess what was going to happen next, and at this time he raised his teacup and smiled coldly. Over there, Qi Guangzu looked at him with some embarrassment: "No...... Be...... Aunt Ning. ”

Wu Qilong was stunned, he removed the teacup from his mouth, and after a while, his eyes turned, as if he didn't know where to put the teacup, he took a deep breath, then opened his mouth, and exhaled a long time, his gaze turned back to Qi Guangzu's body.

"You say...... What the? ”