Chapter 102: Friendship
Seeing Bai Qingyan nodded, Dong patted his daughter's hand with distressed eyes, if her daughter's grandfather, father and younger brothers were all there, where would she use one of her daughter's families to worry about the future of the family?
She smiled and squeezed Dong's hand: "A-Niang knows everything in her heart, and her daughter can't hide anything from A-Niang." ”
"But Xiao Rongyan, a wealthy businessman in the Great Wei Dynasty, can he buy so many shops and farms in one go?" Dong held his daughter and had to think carefully, "This is not a sum!" ”
"This is what I want to say to my mother, I asked Chen Qingsheng to tell Xiao Rongyan that this matter is only in his name, and the money is from our national government. This is the only way to transfer all the shops and granges on the bright side of the Guogong Mansion to private, or to you. Bai Qingyan looked at Dong, "I just don't know...... For a while, can our national government take out 450,000 taels to the people of the clan? ”
Dong listened to Bai Qingyan's words, and remembered that his younger brother Dong Qingyue told her yesterday...... The reason why the axle of King Xin's carriage was broken was the work of the extremely skilled guard beside Xiao Rongyan. Today, Xiao Rongyan also came to the Guogong Mansion early in the morning to worship, and it was Xiao Rongyan's guards who rescued the four brothers and sisters who were about to hit the coffin.
She grabbed her daughter's hand and tightened it: "You and Xiao Rongyan have met in private?" Yes...... Coming and going?! You and A-Niang are honest! ”
Dong's problem is like a series of cannons, the more she thinks about it, the more she thinks that this is the truth, although the scholars, farmers, industrialists, merchants, and merchants are the last, but the Great Jin Kingdom is not so lowly merchants. Not to mention that this Xiao Rong is handsome and chic, the scholarly and elegant temperament on his body is even more outstanding! Needless to say, her daughter's appearance is beyond the ordinary, so it is difficult for two people...... Got a camaraderie?! Otherwise, how could Bai Qingyan be sure that Xiao Rongyan would help the Guogong Mansion?
If Bai Qingyan really had a friendship with Xiao Rongyan, then she would have to make another plan, and the method she had told her mother Dong Lao Taijun before would not be able to be used.
It is important for her daughter to be safe, but it is also important to be safe and make her life go smoothly.
Right now, behind the Bai family are the people of the capital, and the emperor will not take the Guogong Mansion for a while, if her daughter really has affection for this businessman, she needs to start planning at this time, and only after trying this Xiao Rongyan's character is superior, she dares to entrust her daughter to him.
Xiao Rongyan has such a bearing, how can he be a businessman?! If this lets his daughter follow him, it will not only be a low marriage, I am afraid that in the eyes of the world, it will be self-depravity and self-contempt!
How can an ordinary Qing noble family have a reason to marry their daughter into a businessman, let alone a hairpin family like Zhenguo Mansion that has been glorious for a hundred years and is known to all countries.
It's just a moment, and Dong's heart has turned a thousand times.
Bai Qingyan looked at Dong's unpredictable complexion, and said to Dong: "Today I went to the Folding Willow Pavilion outside the city to send people off, and I met Xiao Rongyan and said a few words. However, the reason why her daughter asked Chen Qingsheng to go to Xiao Rongyan to discuss this matter is not because she feels that she can get this face from Xiao Rongyan by saying a few words. ”
She helped her mother all the way forward, and explained to Dong in a low voice: "Since Xiao Rongyan entered the capital, my mother has thought about Xiao Rongyan's style of spending a lot of money. What he wants is to make a name for himself in this capital, and even in the Jin Kingdom, to turn the name of the richest businessman in the Great Wei Dynasty into the richest businessman in the world, and let the people of the world know that there is such a number one person as Xiao Rongyan! ”
Now in the Jin Kingdom, the Zhenguo Mansion has attracted the attention of the whole country, for Xiao Rongyan...... What could make him achieve his goal faster than swallowing all the shops, farms, and fertile fields in the hands of the Guogong Mansion in one go? ”
When Bai Qingyan was just standing under the corridor, he had thought about everything in his heart, Xiao Rongyan said at the palace banquet that he would wait for the fifteen lanterns in the capital city to pass before leaving, why? It is nothing more than to take advantage of the Lantern Festival when the world's scholars gather in the capital city to show their financial resources and make the name of the richest businessman in the world.
But now because of the funeral of the Guogong Mansion, I am afraid that this expectation will be disappointed.
In this case, Bai Qingyan sent the opportunity to Xiao Rongyan, a person as smart as Xiao Rongyan would never miss this time to show his financial strength to the world...... and let the Guogong Mansion owe him a favor.
Dong looked at his daughter's restrained and sharp gaze, grabbed her cold hand, and asked, "This Mr. Xiao...... Both his appearance and character are worthy of honor, and you ...... him."
She didn't react to her mother's words for a while, but when she reacted, her mother made her cry and laugh: "Auntie, where do you want to go?" I know in my heart what I look like, I have already made up my mind to rely on my mother in this life, not to mention that our Guogong Mansion is even more difficult now, how can I have such a little daughter's mind? ”
Without waiting for Dong to speak, she added: "Mother, no matter what happens, we will wait until the funerals of our grandfather, father, uncle and younger brother are over. ”
Dong's eyes were red, and he choked up and nodded.
"Mrs. Shizi, eldest girl."
I saw that Mr. Gu was helped out by the little servant, and after saluting, he hurriedly asked: "Where is the fourth master of Qiyun from the clan?" Let's go? ”
Mr. Gu is a loyal servant of the Guogong Mansion, and since the high ancestor, Mr. Gu's ancestors have been in the Guogong Mansion for generations, and it can be said that he has worked hard for the Guogong Mansion for generations.
Mr. Gu has been in charge of the most important account office in the mansion all these years, and Mr. Gu is in charge of the dispatch of money, so Mr. Gu is very popular whether he is in the Guogong Mansion or in the Shuoyang clan.
Just now, Bai Qiyun came to the Dong family with a shelf, and Mama Qin quietly sent someone to find Mr. Gu to come to the town, but she didn't expect Bai Qingyan to come over and finalize the matter after a while, and Mr. Gu came a step too late.
"Just now, my mother agreed to the request of the clan, and planned to sell all the shops and farms in the Guogong Mansion to make up enough money, and my uncle has already gone to the front to offer incense to my grandfather and father." Bai Qingyan said respectfully to the old man.
"Decay go and reason with them!" The old gentleman was on crutches, and he trembled and walked forward.
"Ancient ......"
Dong was about to call Mr. Gu, but was grabbed by Bai Qingyan, she took a deep look at the ancient back, retracted her gaze and looked at Dong calmly: "Mother, let Gu go and add a fire, it's just right!" ”
The sun had set, and the last rays of the sky had gone.
In front of the mourning hall in the front yard, under the flickering candle flame, Bai Qiyun finally bowed solemnly.
He knelt on the futon and said: "Uncle, cousin, although you are gone, but the younger brother and sister are a promise-keeping, before the uncle promised to repair the ancestral hall for the clan, repair the ancestral temple, repair the ancestral tomb, the school and these things should come down!" ”
As soon as Bai Jinzhi heard this, he said angrily according to Bai Qingyan: "What?!" The eldest aunt agreed?! ”