Chapter 192: What the hell is going on?
If the eldest lady is the backer of the Lin family, and the second lady is the future of the Lin family, then Linglong is definitely the pillar of the Lin family. Although she is called a righteous daughter, her status in the Lin family is by no means below the two young ladies of Duyun and Wanqing. And her taste is definitely as good as her status.
The stories that can enter her eyes, Gao Laosan has watched them a few times, and they are either touching and heartfelt, or have a long history, or they are implied to reason, or they are entertaining, all of which are classics.
If Bai He saw her stack of books, he would definitely think that this Linglong was the Great Zhou version of Pu Songling.
Although Gao Laosan didn't know who Pu Songling was, he could also see the subtlety of this stack of notes.
However, Rao is like this, after Miss Linglong read Bai He's book, she actually gave away the collection of stories she had specially copied for the second lady, wouldn't that be an explanation......
Gao Laosan touched his chin, and suddenly felt a little proud: "This book also has a credit to us, hahaha......"
"Well, a reminder!"
"You have to be repressed!"
Horses' hooves tick.
Walking on Jinling Street again after half a year, the man who drove couldn't help but sigh: "Miss, I haven't seen you for half a year, this Jinling ...... What a change! β
"yes, it's a little big, so big I can't even recognize it."
The street is still the same street, but the shops are not those shops anymore. I saw that all the shops related to "wine" were all named "Lan Kwai Fong" without exception.
Mrs. only said in the letter that her uncle made a liquor, which is enough to kill everything on the market in seconds, and the value is extraordinary, so she asked her to come back as soon as possible to help deal with it, but she didn't say that after he made the liquor, he made so many famous halls.
Then the man who drove the car inquired about passers-by, and when they heard that these franchise stores were all made by their own uncle, the two couldn't help but be shocked again.
In the teahouse of the restaurant, from time to time, I saw a storyteller holding a copy of "The Legend of Mortal Cultivation of Immortals" and saying that whether the business is good or not remains to be verified, but at least the popularity is absolutely hot. On the other hand, the others who are still talking about the old yellow calendar or the gossip of the rivers and lakes are almost full of people, not to mention how ugly the shopkeeper's face is.
Linglong watched all this quietly, listening to the noise coming from the car window, and couldn't help laughing at herself: "All the 100 liquor companies in the city have changed their surnames to Lan Kwai Fong...... Big Brother Bai's method is simply ...... Oh, ma'am, you can't help but think too highly of me......"
In the midst of surprise and self-deprecation, the Lin Mansion had arrived.
The big housekeeper returned home, for the Lin Mansion, it was a grander day than the festival, headed by the lady, the Lin Mansion greeted each other, Linglong deliberately glanced at everyone, only to see that in addition to the dart, including the second lady, the seven stewards were among them, but only the uncle Baihe was not seen.
"That kid in Baihe hasn't been at home all day, and I don't know where to run at this time." Mrs. Lin seemed to see through the doubts in her heart, and explained with a smile.
"Hmm." Linglong nodded in understanding. Because the white river in her impression is indeed a man who does not return home often.
At the next pleasantries, there is no need to mention it.
Subsequently, according to the usual practice, the leaders of the Lin Mansion held a family meeting in the conference hall, and the major stewards reported their work as usual.
The first to speak was the second lady.
The second lady is in charge of Wutang, but Wutang, in fact, has nothing to say, because it does not belong to the category of business, it is just a private armed force exclusive to the Lin Mansion.
If there is anything worth mentioning, it is probably only the second lady who broke through, and how many young heroes she defeated before breaking through, how many cheats she won, and how much money she sold for the "high price" of one hundred taels - these small sums are simply a drop in the bucket for the Lin Mansion, and they are not worth mentioning at all.
On the contrary, when the second housekeeper Uncle Shen reported the expenses in the house, he specifically mentioned the 200,000 taels of cash earned by his uncle, which shocked Linglong very much, and then felt a little embarrassed.
She also set up a flag before, saying that if my uncle can do business, I will personally wash his socks for a month! But nowadays, people not only know how to do business, but also use amazing methods. made a net profit of 200,000 taels of cash a month, and even she couldn't do it.
Then there is Sanniang.
Sanniang is in charge of the Hunting Hall, which is an important part of the business of the Lin Mansion.
"Recently, I received rumors that the Ministry of Jianghu Supervision seems to be interested in recruiting a large number of Jianghu masters to explore Shennongjia, and the conditions given are extremely generous. If the territory can be successfully opened, the imperial court will not only purchase all kinds of exotic beast herbs at a high price, but also send people to count the merits, and the highest reward for those with the highest merits is to allow them to open a sect and recruit disciples. β
"Well, I've heard about it." The fourth master is in charge of planting the hall, and the matter of clearing the wasteland is also about the alien beasts and herbs, so he also received similar news.
"Is the information reliable or not?" Linglong asked.
"Although there is no official document on it at present, it is inferred that eight or nine are not far from ten." The fourth master twisted his beard, groaned and said, "In addition, this matter is suspected to be related to my uncle. β
"It's related to my uncle again?" Linglong frowned when she heard this.
Shennongjia is not only a high mountain and dangerous, but also has a cave of a hundred beasts, and people are not allowed to enter, which can be said to be the most dangerous and mysterious place in the Great Zhou. However, at the same time, Shennongjia is also the most resource-rich place in the Great Zhou, and it is said that only Mr. Li Bai, who is known as the three uniques of poetry, sword and wine, has penetrated into its hinterland, and everyone else has gone and never returned.
The Jianghu Supervision Department recruited masters to explore, which can be said to be an unprecedented event, my uncle is just a white ding, and there is no force, he sold some liquor and made 200,000 taels in cash, so why is this kind of major event related to him?
The fourth master said: "I have to ask the second lady about this, she may know better." β
"That's the case, Bai He once made a suggestion to Master Di...... "The second lady said this and so on about the "Jianghu Governance Policy" that Bai He had mentioned to the great detective.
Linglong listened quietly, thought for a while, and said: "This matter is very important, I suggest that we stay on hold for the time being, and confirm whether there is really something before making a decision." β
The suggestion of the chief butler can basically be said to be a resolution, and everyone has no objections, and then the next one.
The next one is Aunt Rong, she thinks about her uncle's liquor is invincible in the market, and proposes whether the government will take this opportunity to develop into the catering industry, Linglong thought about the Lan Kwai Fong franchise store she saw all the way, so she vetoed this proposal.
"Next."
The next one is Weaver Niang.
Before speaking, she took out a stack of drawings, the top one was the wedding dress that Bai He designed for Ying Yue the day before the wine tasting meeting, and the others were also different styles based on this.
Handing the drawings to Miss Linglong, Weaver Niang said lightly: "The name of the clothes on the picture is called the wedding dress, thanks to this picture, the business of the seamless cloth village has skyrocketed by 30% in a month, and it is still growing steadily." Oh yes......"
She added, "This matter is also related to my uncle." β
"Again...... Uncle again? β
Linglong glanced at the stack of drawings and was stunned.
In this day and age, I am afraid that no woman can resist the temptation of a wedding dress. Linglong is also a woman, and she is a young and beautiful woman, so she can see through at a glance how lethal this dress is to women.
"Pass the order!"
Just thinking about it for less than a second, the young housekeeper immediately took the case: "From now on, Zhitang will make every effort to promote wedding dresses, print hundreds of drawings and make models, and spread them to the major branches of Dazhou, and order them to make plates." If there are those who innovate and have good performance, they will be rewarded! β
"Yes." Weaver Niang nodded in response, and said: "The wedding dress was originally designed by my uncle, and in addition to this wedding dress, there may be other styles in his mind. It's just him...... Oh, you all get the idea. If there is a chance, the big butler may wish to set him up, and there may be a surprise. β
Everyone smiled knowingly, Linglong looked at the second lady, and said with a smile: "Then it depends on Qing'er." β
"I'll try it......"
The better Bai He is, the happier the second lady is, just thinking about her fiancΓ©'s bad character, she doesn't dare to pack the ticket, she can only say that she will do her best.
And then the next one.
The next one, in fact, is also the last. Because the dart head is not there, so now, there is only one Uncle Tie who has not yet spoken.
However, many times, Uncle Tie's opinions are directly skipped, because he rarely speaks, and he will only say one sentence when he comes and goes: I am just an ironworker, what else can I report......
This time, though, things seem to be a little different.
"I ...... I also have something to say. Just when everyone thought that he was going to continue to carry forward his previous style, Uncle Tie suddenly spoke.
"Lao Tie, do you have something to say?" Aunt Rong, who was the most compatible with him, was the first to laugh and teased: "Isn't it also related to my uncle?" β
"Uh-huh." Uncle Tie smiled innocently.
"What? Is it really related to my uncle? Everyone was stunned.
"Ahem, that's ......"
Uncle Tie smiled very honestly, he deliberately cleared his throat before saying: "Recently, the iron shop has received a lot of strange orders, and most of the employers are some young young chivalrous women...... In short, as a weapon, they don't need the basic conditions that a weapon should have, but they ask for one thing. β
"What requirements?" The crowd asked.
"Handsome!"
"What?" Aunt Rong plucked out her ears, thinking that she had misheard.
"One word: handsome!"
Uncle Tie emphasized very seriously, "In their words: just want to be stylish, handsome, fancy and cool to hang the sky, and nothing else matters." Suddenly, he pointed at the waist of the second miss, "Well, just like the Wangshu sword that the second miss carried." β
Everyone turned their heads to take a look, and saw that the second lady had a crystal blue "sword" hanging from her waist, which looked really handsome, and couldn't help but sigh again and again: exaggerated! It's too pompous!
Uncle Tie continued: "I felt curious, so I inquired. As a result, I heard rumors in the rivers and lakes that the Jianghu Supervision Department was going to hold something in our Jinling City...... In the first martial arts conference, the rules are a little different from before......"
"A martial arts conference with different rules? What's the difference? β
"Hahaha, I'm just an ironworker, how can I remember so many doorways, if you want to know, you might as well ask your uncle? This matter is the same as the Shennongjia wasteland, it is all from the Jianghu Supervision Department, my uncle is familiar with Master Di, and I asked him if it is more reliable. Uncle Tie laughed.
Get!
The topic turned back to my uncle.
ββ¦β¦ Although I don't understand the aesthetics of young people now, since they want handsome weapons, I think, should we Tietang create a batch to cater to the market? It just so happens that in the book published by my uncle, doesn't it mention a large number of divine weapons and magic weapons? Let's draw a gourd in the same way and create a batch of it, what do you think, big housekeeper? Uncle Tie continued to circle.
Linglong thought about it, and remembered the half of "The Legend of Mortal Cultivation of Immortals" that she had just seen in Lao Bizhai, and felt that it was really like this. Uncle Tie is very assertive and rarely proposes in the council, but every time he makes a proposal, it must have something unique. So he nodded and said, "That's okay, Uncle Tie, you can just watch and do it." β
"Uh-huh."
At this point, everything in each hall was decided, and in the end, everyone finally said the original intention of the big housekeeper to return to the house this time - liquor.
Regarding this point, the chief butler said that without an investigation, he would have no right to speak, and planned to visit the winery and Lan Kwai Fong tomorrow before making a decision, and everyone had no objection.
Miss Linglong is worthy of being a person with a good dancing atmosphere, if she is an ordinary person, she will definitely not be able to cope with this kind of big scene related to the future direction of the clan, but she can always find out the crux of the problem at once between a thousand things, and then propose a solution in a few words.
When the Holy Queen quelled the civil strife, she once drove to Jinling and saw Linglong, who was only thirteen years old at the time. She said something like this: Linglong is good at dancing, and he is the talent of Wang Zuo. If you want, you might as well go with me, if he and I rule the world, you will be the prime minister.
As a result, Linglong refused.
Here's what she said at the time: Be loyal to the country and do what you want. However, the Lin family has the grace of regeneration for me, and now that the old man is newly mourned, the Lin family is in turmoil, how can I give it up?
Then the holy queen left, she stayed in Jinling like this, and became the chief housekeeper of the Lin Mansion, and she did it for more than five years, taking care of the Lin family day by day.
Then the group discussed other matters, then dismissed the meeting and began to go their separate ways.
After everyone left, Miss Linglong recalled the content of this meeting, and suddenly felt a little headache: it was rare for her to go back to the house, and it turned out to be a good meeting, but in the end, everything was related to her uncle! - 200,000 taels of cash, winery, wasteland, wedding dress, just looking for handsome weapons...... All of them!
What the hell is going on?
Is this a council or a pit-filling meeting to wipe his ass?
There is also a long story that he just wrote and is still being serialized, even an honest person like Uncle Tie can see the great value in it, so in the future, this book will definitely make a lot of noise, right?
"Big Brother Bai, Big Brother Bai, you have done a really thorough job of shaking your hands...... she was complaining to herself, when she suddenly heard the fourth master sigh: "Linglong, you took up such a heavy role on your debut for the first time, you must have a lot of pressure, right?" β
On formal occasions, she is the big housekeeper, but in private, she is also the granddaughter of the fourth master who grew up, and when she heard this, she hurriedly said: "It's okay......"
The fourth master seemed to see through the resentment in Linglong's heart, so he smiled and comforted: "The author told me in a dream last night that there were too many holes dug before, so I waited for you to come back and fill them." So, don't be in a hurry to complain, because there will be a long time of hard life in the future. β
Linglong: "......"
The fourth master said again: "But don't worry, there shouldn't be more thousands of words like this, according to the old man's experience, you should be able to take a break in the next chapter." β
Linglong: "......"
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Lin Mansion can still rise strongly in the face of ups and downs, and one of the most important factors is of course because of Linglong, but on the other hand, it is also inseparable from the execution ability of the major stewards.
Early in the morning of the second day, the major stewards had already begun to act, and Linglong also went to the Dazhou Distillery to inspect the work as planned.
At this time, Bai He, the main party, was still in a dream.
"Young master, young master! Wake up! β
Just when he was about to untie Zhou Gong's daughter's shirt, he was suddenly woken up by a cry from Little Lori, and then heard what she said, and suddenly stood up, and instantly fell asleep.
"What?! The printing press has been robbed?! β