In the courtyard of the Chen family, Chen Fengxin, the former Miss Chen and the current hostess of the Ying family, looked at Huan'er who was combing her hair and asked, "Huan'er, did you go to the exchange yesterday?" ”

Huan'er nodded and said, "Miss, I went to see it, but I didn't dare to tell you." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Chen Fengxin blinked her eyes and asked, "What don't you dare to say?" ”

Huan'er looked at Miss and said a little nervously: "Miss, you don't know, yesterday the stock exchange was gloomy, and the stocks of more than 100 Liaodong service teams were all falling. Many people were so angry that they didn't eat, and they sat in the exchange and watched the prices, and the atmosphere was so miserable. There were also people who quarreled with traders. ”

"The exchange has never seen such a sharp drop across the board in all these years?"

"Miss, the Liaoyang Dongqi service team you bought fell by more than a dollar, and fell to 1021, and we bought 400 shares, and we lost more than 40 taels of silver at once."

Huan'er's eyes suddenly turned red, and her eyes moistened, and she said, "These more than forty taels of silver are enough for Miss's expenses for a year, and they will be gone all of a sudden." ”

Chen Fengxin smiled when she heard Huan'er's words.

She grabbed Huan'er's hand and said, "Don't be sad Huan'er, this stock has risen and fallen, how can it continue to rise forever?" We've made a lot of money! ”

After thinking about it, Chen Fengxin said: "Yesterday the newspaper said that this year's Liaodong, Shandong and Taiwan are all bumper harvests, and the grain produced in one town and six provinces will definitely not be eaten. The so-called grain cheapness hurts the peasants, and this year's grain prices are worse than last year's, and the grain grown by the people is all purchased by the prince's protective price. The purchase price of rice noodles in Liaodong is one or two or eight yuan, and the profits of Liaodong's 'service team' will fall sharply at this price, and the stock price will naturally fall. ”

Huan'er wiped her tears and said, "Miss, you originally said that when Dongqi's stock rose to 12 taels of silver, you would open a restaurant for the eldest young master with 500 taels of silver, but now there is no capital, and the eldest young master will be a second junior who will serve dishes for the rest of his life." ”

As she spoke, Huan'er couldn't hold back her tears and cried.

"It's all Li Zhi's fault, who took away all the fields of our Chen family. Our family used to have more than 5,000 acres of tenant land, and there were several thousand taels of silver a year just for rent, and the eldest young master and the second young master were all famous merry sons in the Tianjin Acropolis. As a result, as soon as Li Zhi came to Juntianfu, the tenant farmers threatened us with a lawsuit to turn the tenant land into public land, and our family's income was lost. The old man was alive. ”

"I think I, Chen Huan'er, was the first to support the Li family's soap, and I queued up to buy his soap several times, and talked about the benefits of his soap everywhere. As a result, he became the master of Tianjin, and he treated our Chen family like this..."

Huan'er stomped her foot and said fiercely: "I knew that this was the case, I wouldn't buy the Li family's soap anyway, and I would go around saying bad things about him..."

Chen Fengxin listened to Huan'er's words and said that the moon was too much, and she was so frightened that she quickly stood up and covered Huan'er's mouth.

"The wall has ears, don't cause trouble!"

Huan'er heard Miss's words and wiped her tears.

Chen Fengxin heard that Huan'er was no longer complaining, sighed, and said: "I can't blame the prince, when Juntian was paid, my Chen family still had tens of thousands of taels of savings, and it was not tossed and lost by the eldest brother and the second brother." The old man was angry at the beginning, and he also hated the eldest brother and the second brother, where is the policy of hating the prince? ”

Huan'er sniffed and said, "If it weren't for the fact that Miss had invested in the shares of the Dongqi Service Team in the stock exchange with the dowry at the bottom of the box over the years, and earned thousands of taels of silver, the eldest young master and the second young master really didn't even have the money to marry their son." ”

"The Chen family and the Ying family are all up to Miss now."

Chen Fengxin smiled and said, "So, it can't be all due to the fact that the prince is not good to us gentry. If it weren't for the stock exchange opened by the prince to help us make money every year, how would we have the money to buy a house for my five nephews? At the beginning, the gentry of Juntian Fu had a little bit to follow the prince, and they all made a fortune by buying some stocks. ”

"The gentry who do not invest in stocks, who do not deposit in banks, who lose the money they have saved, are self-inflicted."

Huan'er didn't agree with this when she heard this, and didn't say anything with red eyes.

Chen Fengxin blinked and thought about things, and didn't say anything for a while, and the two fell silent in the room.

After a while, Huan'er said: "Miss, now that the profits of Liaodong's service team are not good, what should we do with our shares?" Do you just watch them fall? ”

Chen Fengxin thought for a while and asked, "Huan'er, how much did we buy it?" ”

Huan'er thought for a while, her face became a little happy, and she said, "Miss, we bought it in three or two, and now it's ten taels and nine dollars, which has more than tripled." We bought four hundred shares for a dowry of one thousand two hundred taels of silver, and now we have earned three thousand one hundred taels of silver. ”

Chen Fengxin nodded and said, "That's it, it's enough to make so much, you go to the exchange tomorrow and sell all these stocks." Take five hundred taels of silver and send it to the eldest young master, and ask him to go to Henan to pick a lively location in the center of the town and open the restaurant. ”

Chen Fengxin said: "Henan will definitely become more and more prosperous under the rule of the prince. Even if the eldest brother can't make money by opening a restaurant, the value of the restaurant itself will rise in the future, and it will be a sum of money to sell it when the time comes, and it will definitely not be a loss. ”

Chen Fengxin said: "I read in the newspaper that Henan's agriculture should be developed on a large scale, and then Henan should gradually realize mechanized planting. Then Tianjin's agricultural machinery factory orders will not be able to be received. Huan'er, you take 2,000 taels of silver to buy the stocks of five agricultural machinery factories, and each of them buys 400 taels. ”

Seeing that Miss had a new idea, Huan'er blinked her eyes and became happy, "Miss, I know." Miss has the most idea, and the stock that Miss sees will definitely not lose money. The forty taels of silver we lost yesterday will surely be recouped. ”

"It's just, miss, give five hundred taels to the eldest young master to open a restaurant, and we only have three thousand eight hundred taels left. If my uncle knew that you took so much money to help the eldest young master, would you be unhappy? ”

Chen Fengxin smiled and said, "Your uncle Ying's family was originally also a big gentry, and he was in the same way as the Chen family. Your uncle is now drunk and dreaming of a bunch of down-and-out gentry outside every day, and he doesn't care about anything if he gives him ten taels of silver every month to drink money, where will he care if I help my eldest brother or not? ”

Huan'er bit her lip and thought about it, but didn't speak.

Chen Fengxin sighed and said, "The Ying family can't count on your uncle, so they can only rely on your uncle's two sons." Now they have good grades in primary school, and if they can go to middle school in the future and become an official in the city hall, even if they are not ashamed of the Ying family. ”

When Huan'er heard Miss's words, her face suddenly turned red and she looked at her stomach.

Chen Fengxin looked at Huan'er's movements from the mirror, and said with a smile: "Huan'er has been four months, and when the silver arrives tomorrow, we will redecorate the side yard that has been abandoned for several years, and in the future, Huan'er will stop being a maid and go to the side yard to be the bride of the Ying family." ”

When Huan'er heard Miss's words, her face turned blood-red, and she said, "Miss, you're making fun of me again." I am the life of a maid, and it all depends on the young lady to make decisions for me, where is the concubine? ”

Miss Chen turned her head, took Huan'er's hand, and said with a smile: "I can't let you be a maid for the rest of your life!" In the future, you will be the bride of the Ying family, and we will be sisters. ”