With the crowding out of Hua Cai Yuan in the industry, Hua Cai Yuan's business really became cold day by day, and soon the door was crowded, and it was almost impossible to open for a day.

If you can't open it, you can't open it, anyway, there is nothing to sell in the warehouse, and Huacaiyuan is busy buying it.

Dong Zizhen held the account book and said to Ningxia Qing: "The master, according to your instructions, I have bought a lot of goods these days, although the purchase price is not high, but after entering so much, the silver in our account is still a little tight, and we still have to pay the guys for work, we have to pay taxes to the government, and we have to give it to Lord Gu, it is really unbearable." ”

Although it is a dividend to Gu Xuesong, of course she doesn't have the courage to really sit on an equal footing with Gu Xuesong, nominally it is a dividend, but in fact, she will only give Gu Xuesong dividends when she makes money, and when she doesn't make money, she has to pay her own money and pay filial piety according to the guaranteed amount.

In other words, no matter whether it is profit or loss, Gu Xuesong will earn it, and once it loses, Gu Xuesong will earn hers. If not, how could Gu Xuesong be willing to protect her all the way? Coupled with the salaries of the guys and the taxes paid to the government, it is indeed a little difficult to support.

Except for the large number of cage tobacco yarns she imported from Liuyang County before, Huacaiyuan can't sell anything now. If it weren't for the "merit consummation" and the smoke yarn on the side of the Weaving Bureau, it is not certain whether Huacaiyuan can be opened.

She sighed and glanced at Dong Zizhen, only to see that Dong Zizhen had also lost weight several times. Now there is no business in the shop, Dong Zizhen runs outside every day to inquire about the news, and now it is a hot day, Dong Zizhen runs every day, and she has already become black and thin, but she thinks about things in the house all day long, but her skin is white and not sunburned.

Rao is like this, Dong Zizhen has never complained about anything, but occasionally like now, nagging and nagging with her about accounts, just to let her have an idea of the flow of the shop in her heart, and has no other purpose. And as long as she asked Dong Zizhen to do something, no matter how hot the day was, Dong Zizhen would happily run to do it immediately.

Young and willing to endure hardships, for Ningxia Qing, it is a rare talent.

Ning Ningqing handed the account book back to Dong Zizhen and said, "I have a plan in my heart, and I can't rush the business matter, so wait." You've been tired lately, so give you half a day off and go home to rest. ”

"I'm fine, I'm young and strong anyway." Dong Zizhen was really happy, and said: "However, the owner wants to give me a holiday, if I don't agree, it's not that I don't know what to do, and I won't give the head of face!" ”

Ningxia Qing "poofed" and was happy, Dong Zizhen immediately waved his hand and prepared to go home, but he couldn't help but clear his throat. Ning Xia Qing couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" Chilled? ”

Dong Zizhen waved his hand loudly and said, "It's okay, it's just that my throat is a little swollen." Recently, the business in the store has not been good, maybe I am in a hurry, so my throat is a little swollen, not a big deal, just drink some water. ”

Ning Xia Qing sighed, called Cuiyu over, and ordered, "Didn't you go to the kitchen to help just now?" Did you make anything in the kitchen to cool off today? ”

Cuiyu nodded and replied, "Well, I made sour plum soup." ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded and said, "You can bring a few bowls over and give them to Uncle Gu Feng, Shopkeeper Dong, Ah Zheng and Zhen Fu." ”

Cuiyu hesitated slightly, glanced at Dong Zizhen, and said embarrassedly: "The kitchen is made according to the amount of the family, and after sending it to the old lady and wife, the rest can also be divided among them, but each person can't get a full bowl, and the girl can't share it......"

Ningxia Qing said: "It's okay, I don't want to drink cold things, you can share it with them, Ming'er remember to ask the kitchen to make more, and try to let the maids and women at home also use a little." ”

Cuiyu pursed her lips and swallowed her saliva, but said, "Girl, how much do you have to do, forget it, let's not waste it like this, we can save a little is a little." ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled: "What are you talking about, can't you drink it if you do a little more?" Why don't you want to? Anyway, we have a lot of money to buy sour plums. ”

Cuiyu paused for a moment and whispered, "I heard that business in the shop is not good......

Ningxia Qing was stunned, and instantly understood that Cuiyu heard that Huacaiyuan was not very open, so she was a little worried, and she wanted to save money in a different way.

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help laughing, she knew best what kind of character Cuiyu was, she had always been a nagging girl, she never could hide things in her heart, chattering in front of her all day long, and she couldn't imagine that now she had learned to do things quietly and secretly, and secretly felt sorry for her.

Ning Xia Qing smiled with relief, patted Cuiyu's head, and comforted seriously: "Don't worry, even if the business is not good, I am not short of this bit of silver." You go to the kitchen now and tell the cook to cook another pot, and let the maids and women share a little, it's really hot today, and everyone has worked hard. ”

Cuiyu answered sweetly and ran away, Dong Zizhen sat down happily, and said with a hippie smile: "The master is really good to us!" The man at home is a great man! That one...... Since the head of the house wants to reward me with sour plum soup to drink, then、Then I won't go home first, I、I'll drink it and then leave, hehe! ”

Ning Ningqing couldn't help laughing and said, "By the way, I've been asking you to recruit a few more guys before, why don't you care, but now just a few of you are busy enough." ”

"Alas, in charge, you have wronged me!" Dong Zizhen patted his thigh and said: "I'm so concerned, I've always remembered this, but it's really hard to hire a suitable guy." The people I look down on, the ones with too high prices and low prices are really useless, and if I hire that kind of person back, I'm afraid that I won't be able to do the work and will have to add to the chaos! ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled and said, "You have a lot of reasons. Isn't there just a lot of work now, so you should look for it more and get this done as soon as possible, otherwise it won't be like a long drag. ”

"Okay, okay!" Dong Zizhen agreed, glanced in the direction of the back door, and saw that Cuiyu hadn't come back yet, so he stood up curtly, scratched his head, and said, "Otherwise, I'll go to the warehouse to order the goods first, and let her call me when Cuiyu comes back." ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled and asked, "What?" Afraid of being nagged by me if you continue to stay with me? Want to hide from me? ”

Dong Zizhen said silly: "The nagging of the head of the house is for my good!" How could I want to hide? After speaking, he left a sentence of "I'll order the goods", and then ran away.

Looking at Dong Zizhen's back, the more Ning Xia Qing thought about it, the more funny he felt. Just then, Jade came in through the curtain. Ning Xia Qing couldn't help frowning and sighing: "It's unfortunate, Dong Zizhen just left, and you came back." You go and call him, he went to the warehouse to order the goods, Ah Zheng and Uncle Gu Feng should also be in the warehouse, you call them to drink sour plum soup. ”

Cuiyu nodded, put down the tray with three bowls of sour plum soup in her hand, and went to the warehouse. Cuiyu left, and Ning Xia Qing was the only one left on the counter.

However, as soon as Jade left, someone came from the backyard to look for her with a curtain open.

Aunt Du pulled the materials from the warehouse of Huacaiyuan that day, and since the goods in the shop on Jiucheng Lane were all from Huacaiyuan, the materials sold in that shop were naturally the same category as those sold in Huacaiyuan.

Now the industry has jointly suppressed Huacaiyuan, and all the materials sold in Huacaiyuan have been sold at a lower price, and the shop in Jiucheng Lane has naturally been squeezed. Hua Caiyuan is still supported by a smoke veil, and Jiucheng Lane has been unattended for many days.

According to what was said, Aunt Du's younger brother paid for the goods on credit, but now it is almost the day of repayment, not only has it not opened much on the side of Jiucheng Lane, but it has also lost a sum of money in order to pay the guys' wages and government taxes, where can this be repaid? How can this continue?

Aunt Du walked in with a dozen curtains, twisted her waist while swinging a fan, and said impatiently: "Alas, what kind of day is this, why is it so hot!" ”

Walking to the counter, Aunt Du immediately slapped Ning Ningqing lightly twice, and said casually: "How is the big girl's business today?" ”

Then, before Ningxia Qing could answer, Aunt Du took a big sip of a bowl of sour plum soup on the tray, and said quite happily: "It's still the eldest girl who will enjoy it, and let people bring this sour plum soup to cool off. ”

Aunt Du smacked her lips and said, "If only I could add some ice, what about jade?" Let's add some ice to the jade. ”

Ning Xia Qing paused for a moment and said solemnly: "Aunt Du, these bowls of sour plum soup are for the guys in the store to drink, since they are placed here, you won't be incomprehensible, right?" What's more, this sour plum soup is counted, after you drink it, what do you let them drink? If you want to drink, why don't you go to the kitchen yourself? ”

Aunt Du frowned slightly, and said patiently and flatteringly: "The big girl said this easily, but I'm not a big girl, the big girl goes to the kitchen to ask for it, I go to the kitchen to ask for it, and the kitchen won't care about me at all." ”

Ning Ningqing didn't bother to pay attention to Aunt Du's contrived complaints, and said expressionlessly: "Although there are no customers in the store now, this is not a backyard after all, and Aunt Du shouldn't have come here at all." If you have something to do with me, come to me in my house when I get back to the backyard. ”

Aunt Du was choked for a moment, her flattering smile became a little stiff, and she sighed: "Alas, it seems that it was because I drank the man's sour plum soup that made the eldest girl angry, so the eldest girl drove me away." Alas, how can I say that we are all a family, and now we are doing business together, but in the heart of the eldest girl, I can't even compare to a buddy. ”

Ning Ningqing didn't hear it, and he didn't want to bother paying attention to Aunt Du at all. Aunt Du saw that Ning Ningqing didn't speak at all, so she had to say: "Since the eldest girl is angry with me, I won't be here to hinder the eldest girl's eyes, I'll go back to the backyard, anyway, my affairs are not in a hurry, and it's the same at night." ”

After Aunt Du finished speaking, she shook her fan and walked away without looking back, leaving a bowl of sour plum soup that could only be thrown away although she only drank a sip, and the red lip prints on it were still greasy.

Ningxia Qing didn't even need to look at Aunt Du's back, she knew that Aunt Du must have a disdainful and arrogant expression now, but she didn't bother to pay attention to Aunt Du.

She was curious about what Aunt Du wanted to say, although she didn't hear it, she could probably guess that it must be something related to Jiucheng Lane.

Do you want to ask for mercy and ask her for grace to repay the loan? Not necessarily. She felt that Aunt Du should have some other plans. Maybe he has already colluded with Miao Laosan and wants to come to Yin with Hua Caiyuan.

At this moment, Cuiyu came over with Ah Zheng, and Cuiyu said: "Girl, the number of a batch of materials is a little confused, and the shopkeeper Dong is helping Uncle Gu Feng calculate it, so I will bring Ah Zheng first." ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded, pointed to one of the bowls, and said to Cuiyu, "Aunt Du came here just now, and I took a sip." You pour this bowl upside down, wash the bowl well, and then go and fill a new bowl, isn't the kitchen already redone anyway? ”

Jade was not happy at the time, her brows were furrowed tightly, her mouth was pursed, and she complained unhappily: "Why does she move everything?" It's not for her, can't she see it? ”

After Cuiyu finished speaking, she picked up the bowl and was about to go to the kitchen, but suddenly stopped, and said with some hesitation: "Why don't you let Ah Zheng take these two bowls to the warehouse, and I will send another bowl to the warehouse later?" ”

Ningxia Qingmian said without changing his color: "No need, you can't sit in the warehouse, let's wait for you to bring another bowl over, and call Uncle Gu Feng and Shopkeeper Dong to come over and drink." ”

Cuiyu paused, glanced at Ah Zheng, and left without speaking. As soon as Cuiyu left, Ah Zheng whispered, "Otherwise, I'll bring it to them now." ”

"Didn't I say that you can't sit in the storeroom, come and sit and drink when they're done." Ning Xia Qing said without thinking about it, and took a bowl out and put it in front of him, saying: "Since you came here first, you can drink a bowl first, it's too hot this day, you can cool off first." ”

Ah Zheng had no choice but to sit in front of her, glanced at her, and asked her, "Since it's hot today, won't you drink a bowl?" ”

Ning Ningqing shook his head and sighed: "Although I also feel hot, I am also afraid of cold, like this cold thing, I better drink less." ”

In her previous life, she married Tan Wenshi for ten years, took a lot of medicine, and has been conditioning her body, but she has never had a son and a half daughter, and she has never even been pregnant. Now that I think about it, it may be because I was too greedy and cold in my early years.

She remembered that in the past, in the summer, she was always too hot, and she couldn't help but eat bowl after bowl of sour plum soup with ice, and like other mothers, Cao always nagged her to drink less cold, but because she couldn't stand the heat, she always went in her left ear and out of her right ear.

Cao has never been strict with her, and even has a tendency to dote, so although he always nagged her worriedly, he never couldn't bear to really discipline her greedy habit.

Speaking of which, the Cao family has always doted on her, but she is strict with Zi'er, if Zi'er was so greedy, she would have been scolded a long time ago, this may be the general situation of the eldest daughter and the second daughter in the world.

When she thinks of her mother, her mood relaxes and gentles.

A gust of wind blew through the hall at the right time, with a fresh and quiet smell, slightly lifted the corner of her skirt, and brought the scattered fallen leaves and two or three petals outside into Huacaiyuan.

The pink and white petals fluttered down, and the dripping green leaves rustled over and spread on the ground of Huacaiyuan, looking soft.

Ah Zheng sat opposite her, soaking sour plum soup in the summer, and seemed to be extremely relaxed and leisurely. Although she didn't drink it, the wind blew her cool for a while, and she quietly accompanied Ah Zheng to drink sour plum soup, and even couldn't help but feel slightly sleepy.

Ah Zheng put down the bowl and said, "What's the matter?" Ah Zheng understood that she deliberately left herself alone, and Ah Zheng understood her secret meaning without saying much.

Ning Xia Qing tried hard to open his eyes that were about to close, wiped his face lightly, and asked, "Have you been to Jiucheng Lane recently?" ”

"Oh, that's it." Ah Zheng replied: "Wan Bao Cai seems to be going out recently. I guess that the things in their shop can't be sold, and he may have found a buyer out of town who can take over. ”

"Oh, I've found a buyer." Ning Xia Qing smiled slightly and said, "So, they should be able to repay the payment, and they will continue to buy." It seems that Aunt Du is going to tell me about this. ”

Ningxia Qing smiled, now that business is not good, since Aunt Du is in a hurry to "share her worries" for her, how can she not accept this "kindness"?

Ah Zheng suddenly asked: "Business has not been good recently, if you want me to bring Wushu over, he should be willing to accept our materials." ”

Ning Xia Qing shook his head slightly and said, "No need, when he tosses it, it will be time for the silk market, and then there will be no need to worry about sales." But if he's free, you can call him over, and it's good to let him come and see the silk market, after all, the market is not small, and it's still worth seeing. ”