"Prices in the capital have skyrocketed recently, and yesterday according to the instructions of my wife, I opened for business, and now I sell it, and it is just a simple recovery of the cost price." The shopkeeper was a little worried.

"It doesn't matter." Bai Yulan replied.

She folded her hands and put them on her lap, crossing Erlang's legs, looking a little comfortable and leisurely.

"You do this first, don't increase the price, just recover the cost price, just don't lose money." Bai Yulan instructed: "Also, on weekdays, do you see that this outside has begun to monitor you?" ”

"I'll see you below." Some of the shopkeepers wanted to cry without tears.

He was originally an ordinary businessman, but this boss was too powerful, involving some palace nobles, naturally there were few intrigues, and even with their small shop, he couldn't escape this surveillance.

"Is it my man?" Bai Yulan suddenly spoke, startling the depressed shopkeeper.

"Yes." He said without hesitation.

The answer was quite fast.

Bai Yulan sneered: "Then you must at least be ready to sacrifice no matter what I do, and you can't betray me, otherwise, before you betray first, I will do you first." ”

She is a woman, her voice should be a little sweet, with some tenderness, but at this time, it is gloomy, but with the same deterrence as Jing Anhou, it sounds like staying with others for a long time, it will be contaminated with that person's breath and movements, so it seems that it is true.

Seeing the shopkeeper's hurriedly show loyalty, Bai Yulan laughed, stretched out her folded hands, stretched out a hand, patted his left shoulder, and said with a smile: "Now, you just need to prevent anyone who comes to this shop, all the people who are about me, if they are discovered, you don't need to do too much." ”

Bai Yulan's words seemed to be relieved, gentle and kind, but they made the hairs on the shopkeeper's back stand on end, especially the cold hand that patted on the shoulder.

The shopkeeper bowed his head, and Mrs. Secret Dao did seem to have changed a lot, but it seemed that nothing had changed, and he hurriedly said: "What Madame said is that I will definitely follow Madame's teachings in the future." ”

Bai Yulan's eyes narrowed slightly, chuckled, took a cup of tea with one hand, took a sip, moistened his throat and said, "Don't be so restrained, what was the way it was before, just have the same attitude now." ”

"Yes." The shopkeeper's response.

Bai Yulan stood up, and while walking, he instructed the shopkeeper: "This shop is the head office of all shops, if they have any moves, they will naturally come to you, so you have a great responsibility, don't let down my expectations of you." ”

She said it all like this, and she is not a small business background, who dares to disobey the yang?

"I will definitely work rigorously." Again, he pledged his loyalty.

Bai Yulan sneered, and then turned around and walked out of the room, with that smile on her face, but there were too many people guarding the main gate, and her actions and plans would still be more or less unfavorable, so she didn't have the interest to touch the mold, so she went around the back door of the store instead.

Green followed behind her, and it was rare not to talk much, if she just spoke, people could hear that it was a woman's voice, and this back door, although it was not as tight as the front door, but in fact, there were few sloppy people.

The back door is a long alley, and at dusk, the shadows are stretched out by the walls of the four corners, and there is no end in sight at a glance, but now it is too quiet, except for those who are watching, that is, two or three pedestrians, sparse, not desolate.

When she walked to the end, she saw a touch of red clothes waiting at the end, and her heart turned around, without thinking about it, she could guess that this person was Qin Yu.

It seems that it will take him time to change his outfit.

Qin Yu stood in the middle of this alley, Bai Yulan didn't say hello to him, and passed by him directly, Qin Yu understood, and didn't call her, so he followed behind her, one after the other, and got into the carriage that was parked far away.

After he got into the carriage, the first thing he said was to tease Bai Yulan and say, "When you come out this time, you go to the shop?" That's it? ”

He thought this woman was going to do something!

"Or else?" Bai Yulan raised her eyes, looked at him, and said, "Could it be that my shop, which has been in business for so long, is it that I still don't care about it when it is in danger now?" ”

"Waste my efforts."

"Let's rest early today, have a practice banquet in the evening, tomorrow, I plan to go to Yangguo, you have to rest, there are bumps on the road." Bai Yulan looked at his red clothes, which were very simple, there were no patterns, and the workmanship was slightly rough, but the materials were good, and the person who wore the top was a little handsome, and he wore this pair with a sense of luxury.

Qin Yu received her gaze like this, and raised his head proudly: "How is it?" The clothes made by this son look okay, right? ”

His voice was raised, just listening, he could feel that smugness, Bai Yulan snorted and laughed, and said, "Is it so proud? It's not bad. ”

"It's just ......" Bai Yulan paused and said, "The workmanship is a little rough, and the stitches are not sewn tightly, but it wastes the good materials in my house." ”

"It's not as many new clothes as you have in the house, but there is no red, I can't get used to wearing it, so I asked your maid to get a set of high-quality red fabric, and now it seems that your maid's level of fabric selection is quite good." Qin Yu laughed.

Bai Yulan was noncommittal, chatted with Qin Yu along the way, and when he returned to the house, the slave who had been ordered to go out to buy vegetables also returned, although the capital has been a little bleak recently, the necessary life is still indispensable, and the price of this dish has also risen a lot.

As soon as the carriage stopped at the gate of the Hou Mansion, the housekeeper greeted him, waiting for Bai Yulan to get off the carriage, looking hurried and a little anxious, Bai Yulan glanced at him, frowned coldly, and asked, "What happened?" Seeing that you look so hurried, just say it here, surrounded by my people. ”

The housekeeper accompanied Bai Yulan into the mansion, and the slave who had bought vegetables according to the menu designated by Bai Yulan was sent by her to help the cook cook.

"Madam, Yang Guo said that he asked Madame to go quickly, but said that the time limit was not much." The housekeeper was also a little anxious, after all, this was a matter related to the two little masters.

When Bai Yulan heard this, her face changed, she frowned, looked at the housekeeper suddenly, and said, "They didn't specify the time, why did they suddenly make such a request today?" ”

For a while, Bai Yulan's heart was a little uneven, what was going on with this central country? Why do you have to let her go to the central country, after talking about it, she has been urged several times, which is really angry.

"The old slave doesn't know, but today when the lady left the mansion, the Hou Mansion received a carrier pigeon, and after verification, it was indeed sent by the central country." The housekeeper said in a hurry.

Bai Yulan sighed and said, "Forget it, I'm really too lazy to reason with these people, tomorrow, I'm going to travel, if it's really their carrier pigeon, let's reply to the news first." ”

The housekeeper answered, and then retreated, Bai Yulan rubbed the corners of her forehead, a little headache, and thought that this bad thing was going to end like this, Ling Jin didn't know when he also appeared in front of Bai Yulan, and his face was also not very good-looking.

"Madam, in the past few days, there has been no front-line battle report from the Hou Ye's side, and there has been no news back to the Hou Mansion." Ling Jin's expression was heavy, and he looked much haggard compared to yesterday.

Bai Yulan's figure was slightly paused, Ye Mingting was worried that Bai Yulan was in the capital, and I was afraid that there would be many things that would not go well, so she specially paved the way for her, after she knew, she negotiated with Ye Mingting, if he was in the barracks, when he had a little leisure, he would send her a letter back to report her safety.

She frowned, and her voice was deep: "Don't you know how the battle on the frontier is going now?" ”

Ling Jin sighed: "Dereliction of duty, ignorance of lowly duties, all contacts are transmitted through specific people, but the information over there is suddenly interrupted, and all the people who send messages to the Hou Mansion seem to have suddenly lost the news, and thousands of miles away, I have no way to know the news." ”

She naturally didn't want to embarrass him, after all, everyone was an ordinary person, and they were not gods, how could they predict the outcome and the future.

No wonder Ling Jin suddenly asked her such a strange question at night before, in fact, he may have already known something, but he didn't say it.

"Forget it, you can step aside." Bai Yulan took a deep breath.

It's really a good thing that can't be avoided, but a bad thing comes in pairs.

"Madame, don't be in a hurry, this is only temporary, maybe the war situation over there is urgent, and I forgot to inform Madame of the situation for a while." Ling Jin didn't know how to comfort Bai Yulan, so he had to pick up some words so awkwardly.

He told Bai Yulan about this in advance, which could be regarded as leaving a way back for his wife, so that his wife could make plans early, after all, Hou Ye had already arranged everything before going to the battlefield.

Ling Jin looked at Bai Yulan who was sitting at the stone table, and couldn't help sighing, in the past, this place was a place where Mrs. and Hou Ye basked in the sun together in the afternoon, but now, this is about to enter the summer weather, but the sky is still very dull, always dull yellow, which makes people feel an inexplicable sense of suffocation for a while.

Bai Yulan sat at the stone table for a long time, in this capital, because of the replenishment of military rations outside, the price of goods skyrocketed, and not only that, looking at the appearance, the palace was still full of silk and bamboo orchestral sounds.

When it was time for dinner in the evening, the cook would make some meals that suited her taste according to Bai Yulan's usual wishes, all of which were spicy and a little heavy, which was very different from the light diet that was always liked in the capital.

Bai Yulan opened a seat and sat down, the depressed and lost appearance after the previous repeated blows was gone, her eyebrows were smiling, but her eyes were not as shiny as usual.

Lu Yi followed Bai Yulan's side for a long time, and naturally he could see her strange appearance, and said with some worry: "Madam, don't worry too much, the Hou Mansion will definitely survive this catastrophe safely." ”