Zhang Jing looked at Mei Zhiyuan again, with a warm smile on his face, "Hehe, the eldest young master should still focus on his studies, it is best to take the next two exams to make a name for himself, and then it is not too late to go to the shop to learn and operate."

The eldest master also learned business only after taking the meritorious examination, and the eldest young master should follow suit. He said.

The tea bowl in Mei Zhiyuan's hand, I don't know whether to put it down or take a sip of it, "I don't want to study literature and history, and my husband also knows that I don't like to study literature and history since I was a child, so it's better for me to study business." He said.

Zhang Jing asked the second master what he meant, and the second wife agreed, anyway, he just didn't want Mei Zhiyuan to learn the way of doing business, how could the family business earned by the eldest master be given to others.

"There's one more thing I want to plan for you." Ruoxue said.

Ruoxue didn't wait for Mei Zhiyuan to answer Zhang Jing's question, she knew that Zhang Jing was embarrassed for Mei Zhiyuan, with Zhang Jing's head, he would not be entangled in such a trivial matter, and he had already guessed the trick.

"What's the matter? Miss, please. Zhang Jing put away his smile and looked at Ruoxue with a solemn expression.

Mei Zhiyuan also turned his head to look at Ruoxue, not knowing what she was going to say.

Last night, I received a letter from the third old man, Mei Jitan, to his family, saying that the epidemic in Gaochun County was relatively serious, and 21 people had died of illness.

He was afraid that the striker would use this matter to give him small shoes, and he might be blamed on him at that time.

Mei Jitan wanted the family to watch, whether to check the officials in Jinling, or to see where to go, and break this hidden worry.

"There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add!"

Zhang Jing leaned into the chair, the scroll in his right hand gently tapped the palm of his left hand, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Send a letter to the third master, let him fall ill first, and then ask him to write a letter of affection to me, and I will send him to the prefect's yamen." ”

"If someone finds out that the third uncle is cheating, wouldn't it be a crime?" Mei Zhiyuan said.

"Then he'll be really sick." Zhang Jing slapped the scroll in his palm and made a sound.

Mei Zhiyuan opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, he turned his head to look at Ruoxue to see what she said.

Ruoxue put down the tea bowl and said to the peony: "Tell Steward Ding to prepare a thousand taels of silver medicinal materials and send them to Gaochun County in the name of the third uncle, the sooner the better." ”

Peony bent her knees and said "yes", turned around and went out to let people inform Ding Kejian to go.

Ruoxue turned to look at Zhang Jing and asked him to consider how to write the letter to Mei Jitan, and Zhang Jing only thought about it for a while and said yes.

Zhang Jing turned his head and shouted outside the door, and after a while, a young man pushed the door in, Zhang Jing asked him to take a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and dipped the pen in ink on the rice paper, and wrote a letter in a moment.

Zhang Jing wrote in Ruoxue's tone, to the effect that Mei Jitan should pay attention to his body, don't also be infected with the epidemic, etc., and there was no word to make him pretend to be sick.

After Zhang Jing finished writing, he handed it to Mei Zhiyuan, Mei Zhiyuan took it and looked at it carefully, "There are no words in this that make the third uncle fake illness?!" He said.

Zhang Jing laughed when he heard this, "That's right, if it's seen by others, won't it become someone else's credential?" He said.

Zhang Jing looked at Ruoxue and said, "Please copy it again, and then let someone send it to the third master." I think the third master will know what to do after reading it. ”

"Okay."

Ruoxue did not hesitate to raise her wrist to lift the pen, dip it in ink, and put down the pen, and copied the words on the paper in a flash.

Putting down the pen, he took out the small seal from his purse and pressed it on top of the word "disease".

Zhang Jing saw his palms and laughed, and said a few words "good".

Ruoxue pursed her lips and smiled, put away the small seal, she folded the letter paper in two folds and put it away, "Thank you, sir!" As he spoke, he bent his knees to Zhang Jing.

Bidding farewell to Zhang Jing, Ruoxue and they took a carriage to Jiutong Fortune.

In Jiutong Wealth, he told Wei Quanbao about Mei Zhiyuan's coming to study in the shop, and Wei Quanbao said that he was afraid that Mei Zhiyuan would not be able to endure the hardship.

Mei Zhiyuan swore that he would persevere, follow Wei Quanbao and study hard, and would not disappoint him and the elders in the family, so Wei Quanbao agreed to accept him.

Mei Zhiyuan gave Wei Quanbao a master-apprentice gift, went downstairs to meet with a group of accounting gentlemen, and said to them that he would ask for more advice in the future.

"Is there virtue coming?" Ruoxue withdrew her gaze from the lobby, turned around and walked to the table, and slowly sat down in a chair with one hand on the table.

Wei Quanbao stopped the Tai Chi ball in his hand and said, "Here, just wait outside." With that, he turned his head and called someone in, asking him to go and call Wei Youde in.

"Have you ever thought about what the eldest young master will let him do after he learns it?" Wei Quanbao said meaningfully, he thought that he would never let the eldest young master take over the family business, right!?

Ruoxue raised her hand and stroked the bangs on her forehead, "After the eldest brother has been studying for two years, let him go to Zhen Baozhai to be the shopkeeper for a few years." She said.

When Wei Quanbao heard her say this, he knew that this was to slowly sharpen him, and he would not hand over the family business to Mei Zhiyuan in a short time, so that those of them who followed the eldest master would feel at ease.

The door was pushed open, and a twenty-two or three-year-old man walked in, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Ruoxue very leisurely, "The villain Wei Youde, I have seen the eldest lady, the eldest lady is blessed!" He said.

"Get up." Ruoxue looked at the man opposite, with a very tall figure, standing there very well, looking at his feet with his eyelids lowered, giving people the feeling that he was a person with his own degree.

Wei Youde is Wei Quanbao's second son, at the age of twelve he followed Wei Quanbao as an apprentice in Jiutong Wealth, and at the age of seventeen he went to the outside shop to be the shopkeeper, two years ago he was the big shopkeeper of Hangzhou Meijia Jewelry Store, and was transferred back by Ruoxue half a month ago.

Now he is idle at home, and he has not yet arranged things for him to do.

Ruoxue looked at him and said, "Calling you back from the prosperous land of Suzhou and Hangzhou, do you have any complaints?" ”

"The villain doesn't dare to complain." Wei Youde bowed and said.

"Where do you want to do things in the future?"

"What the villain said doesn't count, and I asked the eldest lady to assign an errand, and the villain must do his best to get things done." He said.

Ruoxue covered her mouth and smiled, "I have a batch of goods that I want you to take to the capital and sell them to the inner houses of high-ranking families at a high price, are you willing to go?" She said.

Wei Youde raised his head and glanced at Ruoxue quickly, and then quickly lowered his head.

Wei Quanbao closed his eyes slightly as if he was asleep, but the Tai Chi ball in his hand was still rotating at a uniform speed, and he didn't mean to ask Ruoxue what Wei Youde was doing in the capital.

Wei Youde wondered if his father knew what the eldest lady asked him to do, so he didn't even ask.

You want him to make up his own mind, right?!

Ruoxue saw that he was thinking, so she picked up the tea cup in her hand and took a small sip, she was not in a hurry to answer, she needed someone who would think deeply, not the kind of person who casually greeted without thinking about the consequences.

Wei Youde thought for a while, raised his head and looked at Ruoxue, and bowed towards her to the end, "Please give those items to the villain, the villain will definitely try his best to sell them into the inner courtyard of the high-ranking family, and he will definitely not disappoint your trust in the villain." He said.

He thought that those items must be difficult to sell in the inner courtyard, and if they have to be sold at a high price, it will be even more difficult to sell.

But what if you think about it the other way around? What if it could be sold? It must be a business that can make a lot of money.

That's also something that can save face.

"Okay." Ruoxue said.

Wei Quanbao only opened his eyes at this time, looked at Ruoxue for a while, and then turned his head to stare at Wei Youde, and asked him to take the errand of the eldest lady. You have to do it well.

Wei Youde bowed and responded: "Yes." ”

Ruoxue stood up and said goodbye to Wei Quanbao, and took Wei Youde downstairs to the lobby, Mei Zhiyuan was talking to a settler about something, and when he saw Ruoxue coming down, he came over and asked, "Are you going back?" ”

Ruoxue looked at the busy settler in the lobby, and the guests who came in and out, "Don't go back." I'd like to go around again. She said.

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