Today's weather is exceptionally warm, as if to indicate that summer is coming.

In Gu Xuesong's yard, the water surface of the pond is as quiet as a satin silk, and the rays of sunlight caress the water surface, so that when a breeze crosses, the water surface is always rippled with layers.

Because the weather was extremely warm today, she was standing in the yard wearing a lighter shirt than the spring day, and stood there looking at Gu Xuesong with a food box.

Gu Xuesong asked calmly, "Why is Miss Ning here today?" ”

Ning Xia Qing also said calmly: "I went to Jiucheng Lane today, and by the way, I bought two boxes of candied golden dates at Tong's pickle shop, and then personally sent them to Master Gu. ”

Gu Xuesong looked at the box of candied golden dates, the look in his eyes was clear but cruel, but he didn't seem to be affected by the two boxes of candied golden dates, and asked very keenly and restrainedly: "What is Miss Ning doing in Jiucheng Lane?" ”

Ning Xia Qing laughed self-deprecatingly: "I am a businessman, and I earn all the hard money, and the reason why I tossed it to Jiucheng Lane is naturally to negotiate business." ”

Gu Xuesong seemed to just want to look at Ningxia Qing, so his eyes were always staring at the two boxes of candied golden dates, but when he looked at the candied golden dates, the complexity and entanglement in the depths of his eyes were obviously the thin angry expression that only he could have when looking at people, Gu Xuesong suddenly seemed to sneer, and asked sarcastically: "Did Miss Ning encounter any problems again?" ”

Ning Ningqing hooked the corners of his mouth and said, "I encountered a problem, so I came to ask Master Gu for help." ”

Gu Xuesong suddenly seemed displeased, but as if he didn't want Ningxia Qing to see through him, he turned his face away, and was a little sad in vain, looking at the two boxes of candied golden dates, and said sarcastically: "Is this how you ask for help?" ”

Ning Xia Qing frowned slightly, but she was not surprised at all and said, "Lord Gu's words are as if I offended Master Gu somewhere." ”

Gu Xuesong suddenly stared at Ning Xia Qing with an unfriendly gaze and asked, "Aren't you offended?" ”

Ning Xia Qing also stared at Gu Xuesong tightly, suddenly stretched out his hand and opened one of the food boxes, and said frankly in a somewhat compassionate but cruel tone: "I just can't think of a more suitable way to ask Lord Gu to do things." If I really offended Lord Gu, I can only say sorry. ”

The sweet and greasy taste of candied golden dates floated out with the open food box, Gu Xuesong closed his eyes slightly, and asked unhappily, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Ning Xia Qing took out a piece of paper with two names written on it from his arms, put it in front of Gu Xuesong, and said, "It's not that there is anything difficult to ask for, but I just ask Master Gu to help me check the relationship between these two people in the official mansion." Master Gu has a prosperous official fortune and a wide range of contacts, so it should be easy to help with this little help. ”

Gu Xuesong asked indifferently and suspiciously: "What does these two have to do with you?" What do you check them for? ”

Ning Ningqing unabashedly revealed: "The deal I talked about in Jiucheng Lane today is related to these two people, and I suspect that they may have partnered to deceive me, so I want to get rid of Master Gu to check for me if there is any relationship between them, so that I can have a bottom in my heart." ”

After Ning Xia Qing finished speaking, she had already gotten up, Gu Xuesong raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at her, and said coldly: "I don't want to help you anymore." ”

Ning Ningqing didn't seem to hear it, and said, "I'm waiting for the news of Master Gu." In the good times of the last spring, Gu Xuesong's face was like a frozen lake in winter.

Walking out with Cuiyu, Ning Xia Qing couldn't help but let out a long breath, she really took a risk today. Cuiyu's face turned white with fright, and as soon as she left Gu Xuesong's mansion, she couldn't help but tremble and asked, "Auntie, girl...... Lord Gu, is he angry? Did you quarrel? ”

Ning Xia Qing tilted his head, smiled bitterly, and said self-deprecatingly: "It should be, he should be quite angry." ”

Cuiyu couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Then will he still help the girl do things?" ”

Ning Xia Qing suddenly smiled and said, "He will." ”

Jade was puzzled: "This ...... Didn't Master Gu say that he wouldn't help the girl? ”

"Jade, ah......" Ning Xia Qing suddenly sighed in confusion: "Do you know how complicated a person can be? A person may ...... It was both cold and gentle, and although I couldn't see through it, I had a gut feeling that as long as I did it, he would help me. ”

As Ningxia Qing expected, the next morning, Gu Xuesong asked Guanqi to run in person to deliver news to Ningxia Qing.

Wanbaocai is really not a good book, and now it is a slave, and the deed of Wanbaocai is in the hands of Miao Laosan, and when Miao Laosan bought the shop in Jiucheng Lane, he registered it in the name of Wanbaocai, so as to avoid the eyes and ears of his wife at home.

And on the first day when Aunt Du brought the confirmed news, the house deed, title deed, and business documents of the shops on Jiucheng Lane were all applied for transfer to Miao Laosan's name.

It's just that the procedures on the government's side take some time, so although the application has been handed over to the government, the transfer has not been completed, so when Ningxia Qing and Dong Zizhen went to Jiucheng Lane to investigate the situation, the house deed, land deed, and business documents they saw were indeed true and valid, but they would soon be invalidated.

Therefore, if Ningxia Qing signed a contract with Wanbaocai on that day, the contract was indeed valid at the time, but it was soon invalid, and because the application was submitted to the government before signing the contract, even if Ningxia Qing sued the government, I am afraid it would be a confused lawsuit that would be difficult to decide.

Ning Xia Qing thought about it, and was about to tell Guan Qi to bring a few words to Gu Xuesong, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind again. Perhaps, after angering Gu Xuesong yesterday, although Gu Xuesong will still do things for her, the condition is that she will come over and plead in person. There are some words that only work if she speaks herself.

A few days later, under the constant urging of Aunt Du, Ning Xia Qing finally relented, saying that he had already agreed with Ning Er and went to sign a contract with Wanbaocai early in the morning.

As soon as the contract was signed, Ningxia Qing generously opened the treasury of Huacaiyuan, and let Wanbaocai directly pull materials from the treasury of Huacaiyuan, saying that the affairs with Ning Er's side were all handed over by Ningxia Qing, and Wanbaocai only needed to dock with Ningxia Qing. Of course, according to the contract, Wanbaocai did not pay a penny.

Aunt Du was so happy that she was like something, and Ning Xia Qing was also very happy, and she had a good conversation with Aunt Du affectionately.

At noon, a message from Caoshui County was also delivered.

The message said that the Cao family had planned to come back as soon as possible, but the old lady Cao's condition was not good, so the Cao family planned to stay at her mother's house for a few more days and serve the old mother.

When Ningxia Qing heard this, he asked Cuiyu to buy some high-quality supplements, packed a few lighter clothes for Cao, and wrote a letter of concern by hand, asking the messenger to bring it back to Cao.

At this moment, Second Master Ning sent someone over again, saying that he was inviting Ning Xia Qing to go to the workshop.

Ningxia Qing calculated carefully, before the time when Xiao Jingyuan's required samples were made, it was the last process of phoenix grass dyeing, and the workshop should be busy.

Ning Xia Qing didn't understand why Second Master Ning was looking for himself at this time.

When Ningxia Qing arrived at the workshop, the person who greeted him was Ning Zhiqi.

Ning Zhiqi greeted Ning Xia Qing a few words and explained: "The sample is about to come out, my father has been skeptical before, and he has been watching it personally these days." ”

Ning Ningqing nodded and asked, "Since the second cousin personally supervised the work, I wonder what the second cousin thinks, how is the quality of this batch of samples?" ”

Ning Zhiqi nodded again and again: "My father said, it will never be worse than the third uncle's side." Therefore, my father was even more puzzled, so he called his cousin over, and wanted to ask his cousin......" Speaking of this, Ning Zhiqi showed a somewhat embarrassed expression, scratched his head, and said embarrassedly: "Actually, we don't know if my cousin is willing to say ......"

Ningxia Qingguan smiled, knowing what Ning Zhiqi didn't say, but he didn't say much, just followed Ning Zhiqi to the dyeing workshop.

Entering the dyeing workshop of Ning Er, Ning Xia Qing couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation and dilapidation from the bottom of his heart.

The dyeing workshop here is three times the size of the dyeing workshop on the third side of the second master Ning, without him, because this is the workshop handed down by the Ning family for several generations, and it has been expanded several times, and even now there are unnatural high and low structures and thresholds left by the expansion, so this place is naturally grander than the workshop of the third master Ning.

However, compared to Master Ning San's dyeing workshop, the dyeing workshop here seems quite empty.

Because Second Master Ning has been suppressed by Master Ning San all these years, and many people were poached by Master Ning San some time ago, Second Master Ning's vitality was greatly damaged. Although the scale of the dyeing workshop was more than three times that of Master Ning San's side, the craftsmen left behind were less than half of that of Master Ning San's side.

Because of the loss of craftsmen, the output is naturally not as good as before, more than half of the dye vat has been removed to the corner to accumulate dust, and the remaining few are sparsely placed in the side center of the yard.

Second Master Ning, Ai Lu, and the rest of the craftsmen were all in the dyeing workshop, carefully pondering around the dye vat.

"Dad, my cousin is here." Ning Zhiqi called out a word, and the second master Ning realized that Ning Xia Qing was coming, and his eyes moved from the dye vat to Ning Xia Qing's body, and then he gave instructions to Ai Lu and the rest of the craftsmen, and then those people left the place with Ning Zhiqi.

In the empty dyeing workshop, there are only a few lonely dye vats, and Ning Er and Ning Ningqing. Second Master Ning couldn't help but glance at the dye vat again, and said, "If I hadn't seen this vat of dye with my own eyes today, I wouldn't have been able to believe it." ”

Ning Xia Qing sighed: "To be honest, before the third master falsely accused Ai Lu, I didn't fully believe in that secret recipe. The reason why I have today is that I also chased ducks to the shelves, and I just hit them by mistake. ”

Second Master Ning looked at the dye vat, a little emotional, and couldn't help but recall: "You know, the reason why I was able to take over this workshop is because of your grandfather's credit." However, I don't know if you know, before I took over this workshop, your grandfather used to take care of this workshop, and Master Ban had just entered the industry at that time, so he was with your grandfather. ”

Hearing Second Master Ning mention Ning Wangping, Ning Ningqing couldn't help but look a little complicated, and said softly: "I know about this. ”

Ning Xia Qing suddenly smiled lightly and asked, "Second Uncle called me over today, is it just to ask me about this?" The second cousin can now be sure that I really learned this technique from my grandfather. But I don't understand, the second cousin must know why. ”

Second Master Ning snorted: "Even if I didn't hear you admit it in person, I would have guessed it in my heart." I called you here because I wanted to confirm whether my conjecture was correct, and secondly, I had something to warn you. ”

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help frowning and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Second Master Ning said with a solemn face: "You deceived the third child, so that the third child thought that the phoenix grass dyeing was researched by me, and the third old boy didn't know much about the craft, so he could easily believe it." But do you think you can still hide it from the patriarch? Do you think the patriarch will believe that this technique came from me? ”

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help frowning and asked, "Could it be that the patriarch would guess that this technique came from me?" ”

Second Master Ning nodded, and said angrily: "Let me tell you, according to my speculation, within a few days, the patriarch will come to you for questioning." I called you here today to remind you to prepare and think of a countermeasure. ”

Ning Ningqing was puzzled: "Why does the patriarch doubt me?" Master Ban has been with you for so many years, and according to common sense, it is most likely that Master Ban once leaked one or two, and you got some inspiration from Master Ban's leakage, so you can delve into the technique of phoenix grass dyeing by yourself. Why doesn't the patriarch believe that this technique came from you? ”

Second Master Ning nodded and said in a low voice: "According to common sense, this is indeed the most likely, so the third one also believes it." But ......" Second Master Ning's voice became lower and lower: "...... Did you know that there is a rumor within the Ning Clan? Just because of that rumor, the patriarch will definitely suspect that this phoenix grass dyeing technique came from you. ”

Ning Xia Qing also lowered his voice and asked, "What are the rumors in the clan?" ”

Second Master Ning replied in a low voice: "There was once a legend in the clan that when your grandfather set up his own portal, he took away many of the Ning clan's technique recipes. ”

Ning Xia Qing suddenly realized and muttered: "It turns out that there are such rumors, so now that the technique of phoenix grass dyeing is in the world, the patriarch will naturally suspect that my grandfather took away the formula back then, and he will also suspect that I took out the formula of phoenix grass and wood dyeing today." ”

Second Master Ning nodded and said, "That's right." And it is said that the formula that your grandfather took back then is far more than the phoenix grass dyeing, so if the patriarch asks you to go over for questioning, he will definitely ask about other formulas. ”

Second Master Ning said again: "This time, you pushed the phoenix grass and trees on my head, I can help you lie on the patriarch's side, but if something similar happens in the future, can you still push it all on my head?" How could the patriarch believe you? ”

Ning Xia Qing suddenly smiled and said rather unhappily: "Even if the patriarch knows the truth, what if he does?" Can the patriarch force me to hand over all the things my grandfather left behind? ”

Seeing Ning Ningqing's reaction, Second Master Ning couldn't help but sigh and persuaded: "Even if the patriarch really forces you to hand over all the secret recipes, you can't complain about the patriarch." Ning's ability to stand in the ups and downs for hundreds of years and have today's grand occasion is the hard work of many generations of ancestors, and these formulas are the wealth left to us by our ancestors. ”

Second Master Ning said bitterly: "The patriarch is the head of the clan, and what he is carrying is the burden of making the Ning clan prosperous, what he wants to do is to condense the wealth and brains of all the descendants of the Ning clan, so that the Ning clan can go long." If you think about it from his point of view, you can understand it. ”

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help frowning slightly, and said, "I understand, since my grandfather has set up his own door, it is impossible for the patriarch to let my grandfather take away the recipe of the Ning clan, especially not to allow my grandfather to hold the recipe that has been lost within the Ning clan, so the patriarch will definitely try his best to ask me back." ”

Ning Xia Qing suddenly smiled, looked at Second Master Ning, and said, "However, I have already handed over the formula of Phoenix Grass and Wood Dyeing to Second Cousin, and it can be regarded as returning to the clan, even if it is the patriarch, I can't pick out any reason from it." ”

Second Master Ning sighed and said, "This is also a saying, but I'm afraid I can only deal with it for a while, not for a lifetime." Second Master Ning lowered his voice again, and warned bitterly: "Since you can only deal with it for a while, you will try not to make the same thing happen again in the future, this time I will lie for you, and you can deal with the internal and external ...... of the Ning family."

Second Master Ning said worriedly: "But if there is a next time, not only will I not be able to continue to deal with the past patriarch, but I am afraid it will also attract the attention of the outside of the Ning clan." ”