Zhu'er's voice fell, and the second girl, dressed like a scholar, arrived.

She was wearing a moon-white Hangzhou gauze gown, straight silk trousers, a silk belt embroidered with a double phoenix Chaoluan pattern with a pinched gold thread around her waist, a jade with a Yingluo entwined with evil spirits on the left, a sweat-avoiding sachet of cranes and green pines on the right, and a pair of half-tube cowhide thin-soled boots on her feet, and her body was cleaned up and down. It's a pity that it's a tomboy.

She had just returned from the city. The weather is a bit heavy today, and the thirty or forty miles are all horse-drawn carriages, and the road is bumpy and tired, and the face is as red as ripe pomegranate seeds. She entered the courtyard, and did not greet anyone, three steps and two steps came over and sat on the low pestle next to the small case, and saw that there was no extra tea cup on the small case, so she took Shang Cheng's blue bird cup and drank the residual tea in one breath, poured another one, and drank it again, only then did one hand untie the buckle of the head, take off the hat and fan the wind.

Sang Xiu and Rouge immediately went to get hot water and a towel, so that she could wash her face first and then wipe her sweat. The real slave also went back to the house and fetched a clean teacup.

After the second girl washed her face and sat down again, Shang Cheng poured her tea and asked her, "You just came back from home?" ”

Erya held the cup and sucked the tea soup, nodded in response, turned to Rouge and said, "Is there any walnut kernel wrapped in white sand sugar the day before yesterday?" Rouge went to get her snacks. She said to Shang Cheng: "I didn't see my father when I went back, but I saw my mother." I heard my mother say that he didn't go home for three or four days, but he just taught someone to talk, saying that there was important business in the yamen, and he couldn't go back for the time being. He was also given a bedding and a change of clothes for hot days. As she spoke, she suddenly laughed, "I told my mother that you were fined another three months and grounded for twenty days. My mother said, my mother said......" She smiled so much that her eyes and eyebrows narrowed into a slit, and she couldn't say a word for a long time, "...... She said, you, you deserve it! ”

Shang Cheng also smiled. But he said with certainty: "It can't be, she won't say that about me." It must be a nonsense you made up! If Erya said that her mother felt sorry for the confiscated salary, so she scolded him a few words, he could barely believe one or two points. But even so, he felt that Aunt Seventeen was unlikely to say that he deserved to ask for it. Although the aunt attaches more importance to money, there is no shortage of money in the family on both sides at the moment, what is the value of a few salaries?

Erya pursed her lips and said, "Do you believe it or not?" That's what my mother said. ”

Shang Cheng still didn't believe it: "She wouldn't say that." Either way, there are still some things ahead that you haven't told me. He smiled and asked, "What did your mother say?" As soon as he said that, he knew it was going to be bad! Plagued, what are you doing with Eryaduo's mouth?

"My mother said, who told you to guard four big girls who are as beautiful as jade and refuse to marry......"

Shang Chengden was a little uncomfortable, and he pinched a smile and didn't know what to say.

Erya also had the courage to say such a thing. When she said this, she also blushed with shame, buried her head and pretended to drink water, but her big eyes were looking around one by one, and she wouldn't be laughed at by Sang Xiu, right?

Shang Cheng changed the subject and told her that her father had only come to the village yesterday, but he had come to talk about business, because there were other guests at home, and he would return to the yamen after a few words.

Erya blinked her eyes and thought for a while, and asked, "Is it that the imperial court is going to use troops again?" Are you going too? ”

"I don't know." Shang Cheng said.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it." Erya understood that Shang Cheng was fooling her. Shang Cheng never talked about business in front of them; When her father met some hemp-tangled official business earlier, he had to say a few words to her mother, but soon after he arrived in Yanzhou, he also changed, and no matter how busy he was, he was dizzy and said at home, sometimes her mother saw that he was tired and cared about it, and a hard erection of "less inquiry about things in the yamen" was thrown over, and her mother was often choked and rolled her eyes. However, this time the situation was different, even if the monk didn't tell her, she still knew something. Like a gluttonous cat ready to steal chicks, she poked her head close to Shang Cheng, stared at him and said, "The court is going to fight, can you not tell others, can you not tell you?" One by one, in fact, if you don't say it, I also know that the imperial court is going to use troops in the north. ”

Looking at her naughty appearance, Shang Cheng raised his face with a smile, and by the way, he could feel the warmth on her face when he distanced himself from her. He asked, "Who did you listen to?" ”

Erya was both proud and shy, sat down again and said with a red face: "When I came back, I met Yuan Lan, the big proprietor of Yongshengchang, and he told me. ”

Shang Cheng smiled. He said, Erya is in the village every day, where can I hear the news of the imperial court sending troops? Someone must have told her about it. And Yongshengchang's Yuan Lan is different. Yongshengchang is one of the largest merchants in the capital, with semicolons all over the north and south, and the Yuan family is also a number of big businessmen in the Central Plains, and they are inextricably linked with the people in the government, and it is normal to hear some specious news. Besides, sending troops to the East is a big deal in itself, and it is difficult to completely conceal it, and it is even more difficult not to teach people to talk about it, so it is very normal for there to be some rumors in the capital. Officials have speculation and discussion, and businessmen who are related to the changes in the officialdom will naturally not take it lightly, and with the relationship between Yongshengchang and the Yuan family, they will definitely be able to hear some rumors. It's just that he can't think about one thing, although Gao Xiaosan is not here at the moment, isn't there another big steward in the warehouse, why would Yuan Lan talk to Yue'er about this? Does Yuan Lan really think that the reason why Liu Ji Warehouse can come back to life and the business is thriving is all because of the ability of the two little girls to have a little bottle of water? In addition, because Huo Liu did not hand over the bulk of the liquor business to his own Liu Ji warehouse, but handed it over to Yongshengchang, Aunt Seventeen was so angry that she didn't eat for several days; Even with it, she also hated the two brothers Yuan Lan and Yuan Chi, and directly pulled Yongshengchang and the Yuan family into the blacklist. Not only did she hate the Yuan family, but the other shopkeepers and stewards in Liu Ji's warehouse also hated Yongshengchang, and a few years ago she selected a business name in Beijing to cooperate in Rendan, and no one even informed the Yuan family, as if there was no such business name at all......

He also heard Yue'er and Erya say that after the Rendan turmoil, Yuan Lan also thought about reconciling with Liu Ji Warehouse, but they were all vetoed by Aunt Seventeen. After Shang Cheng arrived in Beijing, he originally thought that Yuan Lan would ask him to come forward to do this peace matter, but when they met twice, Yuan Lan didn't mention this matter, and he didn't take the initiative to help mediate. So things dragged on until now.

Now, when he heard Erya mention Yuan Lan again, he couldn't help but have some speculations: Could it be that Yuan Lan changed his mind and planned to establish a "strategic partnership" with Liu Ji Warehouse again?

But Erya didn't mention it, but talked about something else.

It turned out that Yuan Lan didn't know where he heard the news, and knew that Shang Cheng was researching new navigation technology, and today he happened to meet Erya's carriage on the road, so he took advantage of the rumor that the imperial court sent troops to talk to her.

"I think he's been fighting our family's seafaring skills for a long time." Erya made a judgment very shrewdly.

Shang Cheng never paid attention to business and business matters. His personal ideal is not to make a lot of money by doing a lot of business, but to be a small landlord with a successful career, a little land, and then marry two mothers-in-law and have a few dolls. The happy time he longed for was that in the warm sunshine of winter, he closed his eyes slightly, and sat upright in the wooden chair in the hall as if he was sleeping. When each helper received his salary, he would bow to him, and then he would not even open his eyes, but only hummed through his nostrils in response...... During his time doing odd jobs and driving pack horses, he often looked forward to the future. Later, he ate military rations and became an officer, sometimes idle, and occasionally still had such thoughts. But what made him strange was that now that he had become a county magistrate and a feudal country, there were thousands of hectares of land in Yingxian County under his name, but he never thought about it again......

He woke up from a brief moment of distraction and asked in a curious tone, "How do you say that?" Actually, he wasn't curious at all. In his opinion, how well the warehouse is run, whether it is good or bad, is just a toy for a few girls. No matter how good it is, it won't go anywhere, and no matter how bad it is, it won't shake the foundation of the family business, so it's just up to them to toss.

Seeing that he was more concerned, Erya said to him happily. She said: "The Yongshengchang of the Yuan family has always been a land trade. His family's business is large, from Jiazhou to Yanshan, from Quanzhou to Chang'an, there are their branches in the southeast and northwest. The stall is spread out large, and the business is relatively easy, after all, the situation in various places is familiar, and what is rich and scarce, they know in their hearts, and the goods are not easy to die in their hands. But they do this business, the cost of which is greater, and the wages of the station, the receipt and the escort of the goods, are a large expense every month. The year before last, before and after our family took down the Liu Ji warehouse, the Yuan family took away a few large semicolons of the warehouse as compensation for the first business, and the third brother asserted that the prosperity of Yongshengchang came to an end, and there were many large semicolons in the stalls, and they absolutely couldn't take care of it, as long as there was a place where the measures were improper, there would be a series of mistakes. Not long after the third brother said that, a big deal in Yongshengchang in Beijing happened. There was a grain merchant in the south who piled tens of thousands of stones of grain in his warehouse, but the warehouse leaked rain and taught the grain to grow mold, and finally lost more than 100,000 yuan to the family. If Yuan Chi hadn't tried to fight for the liquor business from Liubo, Yongshengchang would have been defeated a long time ago. Last summer, the third brother said that the Yuan family had been planning to the sea for a long time, but they couldn't find a way to buy and sell by sea, and they couldn't touch the depths, so they didn't move......"

Shang Cheng couldn't help but laugh as he listened. Yuan Lan did not know that the root of the problem was because of the chaotic structure and poor management of the enterprise, so he set his sights on finding new profit growth points; The new target is overseas trade. Speaking of which, Yuan Lan still has a vision, but Yongsheng Chang's family has a big business, and it is not as small as Liu Ji's cargo stack ship and it is easy to turn around. His age and experience are there again, and the people who have passed through the ups and downs are asking for a safe, not like the tall junior and second who are small and bold, and they don't even know what the sea looks like, and they dare to buy a ship to go to the South Seas as soon as they close their eyes!

He thought for a moment and asked, "Where did he hear that I was working on navigation?" ”

"I don't know. I asked, but he didn't say. I don't think someone in the military department told him, or someone in the warehouse accidentally said something wrong, and the result reached his ears. He also said that he wanted to invest some money in our family. ”

Shang Chengleng paused. But he soon understood, and said, "He wants to come and study seamanship together, right?" Did you promise him? He felt that with Aunt Seventeen's attitude towards the Yuan family, Erya would definitely not be able to agree to Yuan Lan's participation in the investment.

"I promised."

This answer came as a surprise. He was surprised and said, "Why did you say yes?" Aren't you afraid to go back and be scolded? ”

"Where can my mother take care of our family's affairs?" Erya said proudly. She narrowed her eyes and smiled like a gluttonous cat that had stolen a chick, and said, "I told him that it is not impossible to mix in a share, but I am afraid that he will not be able to come up with that much money...... " she grinned. “…… 50,000 yuan can account for 10% of the shares, do you want to love it. ”

Shang Cheng's mouth opened wide in surprise. He tossed and turned until now, making a world map, making a compass, making a globe, and doing so many things, it seems that it didn't take 2,000 yuan, right? Erya opened his mouth and called out a 50,000 yuan, and 50,000 yuan could only buy one-tenth of the shares, Yuan Lan shouldn't be angry and walked away, right?

"He agreed." Erya said proudly. It was the biggest deal she'd ever made, so she couldn't be happier. "Okay, I'll send the money over in two or three days. He also said that there may be a few big firms that will also come to participate in the shares, so I hope we don't rush to sell the remaining shares. One by one, I told him that someone was already asking about the remaining shares. ”

Shang Cheng was speechless. The world map, the compass, and the globe, if these three things were taken out and sold, they could be sold for millions of taels casually. But who else but himself would be faithful to this thing? Oh, and he forgot about someone. Nanyang absolutely trusts him, much more than himself! Others, maybe Li Mu can believe five or six points, Tian Xiu can probably believe a little bit, as for more others, it is very good not to treat him as a joke after dinner!