"What do you mean by that?"

"I must have been forced to be helpless, so I made a desperate bet."

Guanqi frowned, obviously not understanding, but he didn't ask any more.

Gu Xuesong opened his eyes and asked, "What about after that?" ”

"Oh. Since this incident spread, many people have been moved. Miss Ning was born like that, which was originally quite attractive, not to mention, Ning Shopkeeper has some family property, for some people, even if it is for the family property, it is worth a try. Not to mention those poor families with many sons, even within the Ning clan, there are people who are tempted. If it weren't for Miss Ning's filial piety, it is estimated that many people would have come to the door. ”

"Hmm." Gu Xuesong answered, and then closed his eyes again.

After being silent for a while, Guan Qi asked, "Childe, what are you going to do?" ”

"What do you think I should do?"

"Didn't Childe say that Miss Ning saved your life, you must repay her kindness. Now that Miss Ning has encountered this kind of thing, the son can take some trouble to find a suitable man for Miss Ning and be a matchmaker for Miss Ning. ”

Gu Xuesong couldn't help but smile lightly, didn't answer, just said, "The tea is cold", as soon as Guanqi heard this, he immediately removed the cold tea and hurriedly went to change the hot tea.

Gu Xuesong looked at the sky outside and whispered to himself, "When are you coming to me?" ”

On the day of Ning Yongda's funeral, Tan Wenshi was there, and he also heard Ningxia Qing swear to recruit him. And before that, Tan Wenshi didn't think she would think of it to this extent.

Master Ning San's affairs were endless, Tan Wenshi was already busy and dizzy, in addition, he had to put a lot of effort into getting married, and he didn't even have time to go to Ning's house to comfort him. However, the busier I am, the more I think of her in a rare moment of leisure.

He always remembered the appearance of Ningxia Qing kneeling in front of the coffin and swearing that day, over and over again.

Day and night, his heart seemed to be roasted on a fire, and he couldn't control it and remembered Ning Ningqing's plain appearance that day, and even in her dreams, it was her loud oath that day.

Such a heart-scratching liver is the most deadly.

Tan Wenshi could only comfort himself over and over again, Ningxia Qing was still in the filial piety period, and he still had time to plan slowly, Rao was like this, and he couldn't suppress the irritation in his heart.

Zhao Xiang'e also heard the news of Ningxia Qingzhao's recruitment from the mouths of others, revealing a rather complicated look, and then shirked and said that she was unhappy, closed the door of the house, leaned against the window, stared at the sky, and couldn't help but be confused.

Then, she sat down in front of the dressing table, took out a piece of paper from the deepest part of the dressing table, and her eyes gradually lost focus.

That year, she had just been separated from Xiaobao and came to Wanyanfang, and a benefactor wrote a sentence on a piece of paper, told her the meaning of the word, and taught her how to pronounce these words.

In fact, she had long forgotten that the guest was Zhang San and Li Si, but out of a motive that she didn't understand, she kept this sentence and took it out from time to time.

The word says, the flowers are thankful for the three springs, the moon is missing, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also coming, when did the people go?

People can't come back if they go, Ning Ningqing knows this very well, and is ready to take over this family from Ning Yongda's hands.

Since Ning Yongda's accident, his shop has never been opened. Now that the funeral is over, Ningxia Qing paid the guys, and the guys are all gone, leaving only Gu Feng, who has no origin, and Gu Feng, who has no background, who has already regarded this place as his home.

Ningxia Qing asked Gu Feng: "Uncle Gu Feng, has my father and Miao Laosan's boat arrived?" ”

Gu Feng counted the remaining materials in the warehouse, put them in one place, stacked them neatly, and said: "I went to ask a few days ago, Miao Laosan is not there, and his guys said that the ship has returned, but their shopkeeper is not there, and they are not easy to call the shots." When I've packed up the goods in our warehouse, I'll ask again. ”

"Well, it's hard Uncle Gu Feng."

"By the way, Qing'er, after I settle the account with Miao Laosan, I will directly give him the material and ask him to return the money from the shopkeeper, do you think it's okay?"

"Huh?" Ning Xia Qing frowned puzzled: "Why do you want to give it to him?" ”

"That's right, Qing'er." Gu Feng took out the tone of explanation to the children and said, "Once the family gets the mulberry garden, they will definitely have to swallow the shop inch by inch." If we take those materials worth thousands of taels back to the warehouse at this time, wouldn't it be cheaper for our family? Therefore, we must prepare in advance, try to exchange all the materials for silver, and leave an empty shop for our family. ”

Gu Feng frowned and persuaded: "Besides, there must be no less money to spend when you do the funeral, and you don't have a mulberry garden and a shop to rely on, you have to save more money to live by." ”

Ning Xia Qing understood, it turned out that Uncle Gu Feng had misunderstood, she clarified: "Uncle Gu Feng, I don't plan to give away the mulberry garden and the shop, let's not give the materials to Miao Laosan, and we won't save money, just like before." ”

"This ......"

Ningxia Qingzi sonorous: "Since I came out to take charge of the family, I have made up my mind to become a benevolent person if I don't succeed, and I must inherit the family business left by my grandfather and father." Uncle Gu Feng, you don't want what my grandfather left behind to be taken away by those wolf ambitions, right? ”

As soon as he heard her mention Old Lady Ning, Gu Feng's brows tightened suddenly, he sighed deeply, and nodded solemnly.

"Uncle Gu Feng will take care of the matter on the shop's side, and I should also prepare." Ning Xia Qing smiled indifferently: "I think my family will soon be unable to sit still." ”

The chirping of geese swept through every house, and gusts of autumn wind carried white clouds flying. The trees along the street are no longer lush, the fallen leaves are falling, the more late autumn, the more red and bright, from a distance, it looks like a flame is rolling, for this late autumn smudged a colorful background.

On the street after dusk, the wheels of Ning Er's carriage ran over the colorful fallen leaves, and he was about to go back to his mansion, but he was stopped halfway. The person who stopped the car only used a sentence "It is related to the matter of the Weaving Bureau's scattered brocade", and asked the second master Ning, who was going to go home, to turn around and go to Lin'an Building.

Lin'an Building is not a lonely building, several pavilions and pavilions are connected continuously, Lin'an Building is squeezed between several big restaurants around, the business is naturally robbed one or two clean, and even there are vendors in front of the gate of Lin'an Building and set up stalls to sell goods, and they don't put Lin'an Building in their eyes, and they sell one after another.

Lin'an Lou business is poor, there are few guests in the lobby downstairs, the guys are a little bored, and in the private room upstairs, there is only one guest waiting for someone.

Second Master Ning came upstairs and opened the door of the private room, to his surprise, the person waiting for him was actually Ning Xia Qing in filial piety clothes.

As the saying goes, if you want to be pretty, you must be filial. At this moment, Ning Xia Qing, except for a black hair, her whole body was snow-white, and the remnants of the sunset shone on her face, but she still had no blood, looking pale and abnormal, as if she was not a person in the world. Ning Er was very old, and after seeing that Ning Xia was green, he was stunned for a moment, and his heart was a little solemn.

"Second cousin, the environment here is simple, the tea is rough, but it is suitable for meeting in private, so I invited the second cousin to come here, and I hope that the second cousin will not be surprised." Ning Xia Qing gave Ning Er Master a cup of tea, and when she spoke, she didn't show any sadness and weakness, and she really had a bit of the momentum of a woman in charge, even more calm than Ning Yongda in the past.

"You don't have to say that, I'm not that picky." Second Master Ning glanced at the tea handed by Ning Ningqing, frowned and looked away, and then reprimanded: "It's just that you are now in the filial piety period, why do you come out and walk around?" What's more, it's getting late now, and you shouldn't go out, so don't do this kind of thing next time. ”

Ning Ningqing was not annoyed, but said: "Second cousin, I invited you to come today, just to confess one thing to the second cousin." ”

"Confess what?"

"That job of the Weaving Bureau did make a fortune for the second cousin, right? Although for the second cousin, that amount of money is not a large amount, but cutting off the third cousin's business has made the third cousin suffer a loss, just for this, the second cousin feels that it is worth it, right? ”

Second Master Ning narrowed his eyes slightly: "What the hell are you going to say?" ”

"Actually, I gave my dad the idea to find my second cousin. That batch of scattered flower brocade was also obtained from the Luo family in Zizhou County through the Gu Mansion and from the Luo family. ”

"What did you say?" Second Master Ning seemed to have heard the Arabian Nights.

Second Master Ning frowned, and asked in disbelief: "You little girl, how can you be ......" How can you have such connections and scheming? What's more, it's Ning Yongda's elm pimple daughter, this ......

Ning Xia Qing said calmly: "If the second cousin uncle doesn't believe it, why don't I tell you the original things one by one, and the second cousin is right?" Or, the second cousin went to the Gu Mansion to inquire and see if this was what I said? ”

Second Master Ning squinted at Ning Xia Qing.

After a while, Second Master Ning pouted: "That's it, I've been in the business for so many years, if I can't even tell if what you say is true or false, I don't have to mess around." Second Master Ning sighed and asked, "But why didn't you explain it on the same day, but tell me this today?" ”

"At the beginning, there was an unspeakable secret, which made it inconvenient for me to say it to my second uncle. But now I need my second cousin to cooperate with me, so I know everything about my second cousin, so as to show my sincerity in cooperating with my second cousin, and I hope that my second cousin can keep this secret for me. ”

Second Master Ning's face wrinkled a little, he looked at Ning Ningqing with a strange expression, and said without thinking about it: "You are indeed a little clever, but after all, you are a girl's family, and business is a man's business, not a place where you should meddle." You are in the filial piety period, so you should keep filial piety for your father at home, and don't go out and run around in the future. "Second Master Ning, get up and prepare to leave.

"Second Uncle Cousin," Ning Xia Qing called Second Master Ning unhurriedly, and said leisurely: "I heard a little rumor, it is said that Second Cousin's workshop has not been going very well recently. My cousin is a fledgling, and I'm afraid that not only will he not be able to help his second cousin, but he will always make mistakes. And my uncle and uncle third have long joined forces and are committed to annexing the second uncle's property first. ”

"You ......" Second Master Ning was a little anxious: "You little girl, how do you know this?" "This is something that even Ning Yongda didn't know in the past, how did Ning Ningqing know? Second Master Ning immediately narrowed his eyes vigilantly and asked in a low voice, "Did the boss send you?" Or did the third child send you? ”

Unlike Second Master Ning's full of vigilance, Ning Xia Qing was well prepared before coming here, so he was unhurried, poured out the cup of tea that Second Master Ning hadn't touched, poured a hot cup again, and then said, "What?" The second cousin felt that if it weren't for the support of the eldest uncle and the third cousin, I, who was not the core of the Ning family, would not have been able to know these news, right? ”

"Hmph." Second Master Ning sat back and sneered: "You girl does have some ways, even if you don't rely on the eldest and third, you can indeed find out about these news." Second Master Ning asked leisurely: "Since you are so capable yourself, why don't you go to the boss and the third child to cooperate?" As you said, I'm not in a good situation right now. ”

Ningxia Qingzheng said word by word: "Second cousin thinks, why did I find you?" ”

Second Master Ning was stunned for a moment, then understood, and said: "Ning Yongda's little family business, not to mention that I don't like it, not to mention, even if I fall in love with it, I will never embarrass the old, young and sick women of the family for this little thing, I can't be as shameless as the eldest and third." ”

Ning Ningqing's smile was a little bitter: "In the entire Ning clan, there are not many people who have this bottom line. Speaking of which, the Ning clan is obviously connected by blood, but when they are fighting each other, they are more fierce than outsiders. ”

"Alas, you are still young, and when you have been in the business for many years and have met all kinds of people, you will understand, the word is the head, and many people's bottom line can be clearly marked." Second Master Ning also sighed, took a sip of the teacup, moistened his throat, and said, "Say, how do you want to cooperate?" ”

After a long time, Second Master Ning left Lin'an Building.

A few days later.

Finally, someone couldn't sit still, and the clansmen who came to ask for the title deed came to the door one after another, not only Lord Ning, Second Master Ning, Master Ning San, and several elders with great prestige in the clan came, but even several stewards under Master Ning and Master Ning San also came, including Tan Wenshi, who was about to marry his wife.

In addition, there were many distant relatives of the Ning family who had never been in contact with Ning Yongda's family, and they were not even present on the day of Ning Yongda's funeral, and they were all young people. Since Ningxia Qing swore in front of the spirit, it stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and people were not only amazed by this unheard of anecdote, but also throbbed because of Ningxia Qing's appearance. It was these young people who were attracted by this incident and came to find out.

A crowd of people crowded into the main house, and the leading few people asked to see the old lady by name.

Ningxia Qing helped the old lady to go out to meet guests.

As soon as they saw Ning Xia Qing, those young people who came to join in the fun even stared out of their eyes, and their greedy eyes were nailed to Ning Ningqing's body unabashedly, and Master Ning, Master Ning San, their stewards, and several elders in the clan all changed their faces slightly, obviously remembering Ning Ningqing's announcement that they wanted to recruit money.

Ning Yongda's sixth aunt, that is, Ningxia Qing's sixth wife, rolled her eyes, and then came up, hugged Ningxia Qing affectionately, and said, "Qing'er, have you worked hard lately?" You see, since Yongda went, you have been sad and sad, and you have lost weight several times, and I feel distressed when I look at it. Okay, Qing'er, you have a child, just go back and rest, let's talk to your grandmother. ”

Ning Ningqing glanced over coldly, pulled out his arm that was being held, and hid a needle in his words: "On the day of my father's funeral, the sixth woman also came. I've never heard of the sixth woman having an ear disease, so I think the sixth woman should have heard clearly about me being a troublemaker. Although the sixth woman is old, she shouldn't be so confused that she forgets it so quickly, right? In that case, why should you pretend to be confused? ”

"You...... How do you talk to your elders, kid? ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled: "It turns out that you also know that you are an elder, in this case, you rely on the old and sell the old in front of my junior, don't you feel that you have lost the face of the elders?" ”

Her sixth woman sneered, "You...... Do you really think that you can change something with a single word? To say that you are a child, you are really naïve! Let me tell you, your uncle and uncle third cousin deigned to come, which is already very face-saving for you! If you are interested, hand over the title deed as soon as possible, and we will not embarrass you. ”

Ning Xia Qing narrowed his eyes: "Embarrassed? Could it be that the sixth woman is ready to come hard? Do you have to tie up our family and grab the title deed? ”

Her six wives glared: "You don't want to talk nonsense!" At a young age, he speaks very badly......"

Before the words fell, Grandma Ning, who came with Master Ning, immediately spoke up and stopped her sixth mother-in-law and said, "Sixth aunt, you are old, what are you still worried about with your children?" Qing'er is a child after all, even if you speak a little impulsively, you can't quarrel with a child in front of so many people, you can dissipate your anger. ”

Ning Xia Qing sneered in her heart, Grandma Ning and her six mothers-in-law sang and harmonized, it was clear that Ning Ningqing must be said to be a child! The child naturally has no qualifications to meddle in the family business, as long as they insist on saying that Ningxia Qing is a child, so that Ningxia Qing has no qualifications to speak, then there is only an elderly lady left, and it will naturally be easy to deal with!

Grandma Ning immediately said to Ning Xia Qing with a smile: "Qing'er, your grandma is still here, as a granddaughter, don't you think it's a little unruly to talk in front of your grandma?" ”

Before Ning Xia Qing could speak, the old lady suddenly coughed heavily, as if she couldn't breathe, and let out a weak wheezing sound.

Ning Xia Qing hurriedly patted the old lady's back, smoothed the old lady's breath, poured a cup of tea for the old lady, raised her face and said to Grandma Ning: "Aunt Lobby has also seen it, since my father died, my grandmother has been sad day and night, and her health is not good, I'm afraid I can't talk to Aunt Lobby, Aunt Lobby can say anything to me." ”

Grandma Ning smiled sadly and said, "Qing'er, you misunderstood, I don't have anything to say, after all, I'm not here to chat with you." Immediately, Grandma Ning turned her face to the old lady and smiled and said, "Aunt Cousin, since you are not in good health, let's get things done as soon as possible, don't worry, we will leave when the matter is done, and you will be able to rest well then." ”

The old lady asked slowly and weakly, "What are you doing?" ”

Grandma Ning was confident: "Naturally, she gave us what should have been given." ”

The old lady said slowly, "You want my things?" Okay, take it if you want, it's just that ah, my family is poor, and I don't have anything valuable, so there are only a few rooms of tables, chairs, benches, and cabinets of dishes, chopsticks and pans, if you want it, take it. ”

Master Ning, who was standing next to Grandma Ning, instantly snorted coldly: "So far, what is Aunt Ning pretending to be stupid?" Do you still want to hold on to the family property? Auntie, you are also a lot old, to put it mildly, half of your body is in the ground, how many years can this family property be held? It's better to hand it over as soon as possible, so as not to lose this old face when it comes! ”

The old lady said with some displeasure: "The nephew in the lobby has a lot of money, and he has always looked down on poor relatives like my family, but even so, he should not curse me, an old woman, to die." In addition, my family has been doing business conscientiously for so many years, and everything is the hard-earned money that Yongda and his father have worked hard to save. ”

Master Ning San sneered and said, "Aunt Cousin, I'm afraid I haven't forgotten something because I don't have a good memory." When Uncle Tang was still alive, he signed a contract, the contract said that the mulberry garden is the foundation of the Ning family, and must not flow into the hands of foreign surnames, although the uncle bought a part, but as long as the uncle has no queen, the mulberry garden bought by the uncle must be included in the family property. I've brought this contract with me, so it's hard for my aunt to rely on it anymore, right? ”