"It's okay mother, if you have anything to say, I'll tell my sister tomorrow." Zhong Lingzhi sat down on the round stool, his eyes shining with tears, "Mother, how is your health?" But you have to hold on! Zhi'er can't do it without you! ”

Only then did Aunt Du remember that she was still pretending to be critically ill. And Zhong Lingyu and Zhong Lingzhi's reaction just now seemed to be suspicious of her. If she slowly gets better, and they speak ill of her in front of Zhong Lingzhi again, then the only son she hopes for in her life may have to be separated from her.

She stretched out her hand and grabbed Zhong Lingzhi's sleeve, her eyes becoming more and more anxious: "Are they angry?" Did my aunt say something wrong just now? Why do I think the eldest lady is angry? Did my aunt make her unhappy when she asked her to give you a recipe for stir-frying tea? ”

pushed Zhong Lingzhi again: "You hurry up and apologize to the eldest lady, just say that you don't need a prescription, it's my aunt who is sick and confused, and she is talking nonsense." You can't let the eldest lady get into trouble with you, it's because my aunt didn't think it well and caused trouble for you. Speaking of the back, she burst into tears and couldn't speak clearly.

Seeing his mother like this, Zhong Lingzhi mourned in his heart.

This is my mother, my mother, even if she is dying, she is still thinking about his son. His love will never be repaid for the rest of his life.

He hugged his mother and cried: "Mother, don't leave me alone. What should I do if you're gone? Mother, Mother ......"

Aunt Du's body stiffened, then softened, and the hand on Zhong Lingzhi's back was soft and loving.

She cried: "Well, if my mother doesn't leave, my mother won't go anywhere, and my mother will always be with my Zhi'er." ”

The mother and son hugged and cried for a while, and Aunt Du struggled to say to the maid: "What about the medicine, what about the medicine prescribed by Ma Langzhong?" I want to drink medicine, I want to live, I can't leave Zhi'er alone in the world. ”

The maid hurriedly ran out: "The slave maid went to see if the medicine was ready." ”

The other side

Zhong Lingming returned to Zhong Lingyu's room and sat down, still looking puffed out. Zhong Lingyu looked at him and didn't speak, just made tea and put it in front of him.

Zhong Lingming picked up the teacup and drank it all, and then put the teacup on the table: "Sister, I will let him know that Aunt Du is pretending to be sick." ”

Zhong Lingyu looked at him and was speechless: "Is it hot?" ”

Zhong Lingming reacted at this time, and hurriedly stuck out his tongue.

That strange appearance caused Zhong Lingyu and the maid in the house to cover their mouths and laugh.

In the next two days, Zhong Lingming took action. He revealed that Aunt Du's method of pretending to be sick was very simple, but it was just for Zhong Lingzhi to hear what he said to the maid when Ma Langzhong came to the follow-up clinic by chance, which aroused Zhong Lingzhi's suspicions; Zhong Lingzhi, who was suspicious, traced it down and was stunned to find the fact that Aunt Du was pretending to be sick.

Zhong Lingyu is just such two younger brothers, although he let Zhong Lingming deal with this matter, he still pays close attention to Zhong Lingzhi's reaction. Fortunately, Zhong Lingzhi did not disappoint her, after learning that Aunt Du was pretending to be sick, he did not gently lift it because of Aunt Du's motherly heart, but lost his temper with Aunt Du, however, he did not tell Zhong Lingyu and Zhong Lingzhi about it.

Zhong Lingming was very disappointed and complained to his sister: "It's a shame that we are so good to him, he learned that his aunt set a trap for his sister, but he helped her and secretly hid it for her." In the future, I will never treat him well. ”

Zhong Lingyu asked with a smile: "If he cares about the love of mother and son, kills his relatives in righteousness, and tells Aunt Du everything he does, do you think he is good?" ”

Zhong Lingming was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought about it, and shook his head: "It's not." No matter how Aunt Du is, she does all this for him. If he doesn't have any conscience at all......" At this point, he sighed, "Okay, I forgive him." ”

Zhong Lingyu patted him on the shoulder and didn't speak again.

As Aunt Du's illness gradually improved, the tea in the Zhong Family Tea House was also sold at auction for the second time. Due to the sensational effect of the first auction, many merchants from the Fucheng side were attracted, and this time the sale was sold at a high price.

After the sale, Shopkeeper Ge found Zhong Lingyu: "Miss, if you don't have the rest of the tea, let's not bid for it." Originally, I thought that our tea house was in Fucheng, and even if the merchants in Bacheng bought our tea, it would not have much impact on our tea house business. But several of the merchants who came back this time were from Fucheng. They bought our tea, and then used it to compete with us, and I always felt that it was a tiger breeding. Besides, it is more profitable to put these teas in the tea house and sell them slowly than to sell them to others. ”

"The output of our pre-rain tea is not small. If you only rely on retail, and you don't have a reputation, and your sales are insufficient, shouldn't the new tea be put into old tea? Zhong Lingyu asked rhetorically.

Shopkeeper Ge was speechless for a while.

"But I always feel that this is inappropriate." He frowned.

"It's inappropriate. But for now, there is only one way to do it, to make a name for yourself first. What I want now is not short-term profits, but the reputation of our gardenia. In the future, as long as the pineapple tea is mentioned, people will think of the tea leaves in our gardenia, which is considered a success. When the time comes, we will open tea houses and teahouses to Songjiang and other places, more retail, less wholesale, and then it will be the time to really make profits. ”

Shopkeeper Ge's eyes lit up when he was told by the blueprint sketched by Zhong Lingyu, and he high-fived and said, "Miss, this plan is good!" ”

To tell the truth, although the Zhong family took the lead and grabbed some tea plantations from Songluo Mountain, they were limited to insufficient financial resources and had been struggling to survive in the cracks of major tea merchants. Zhong Deping worked hard to take care of the business in his hand to this point. Shopkeeper Ge has been doing business in the Zhong family all his life, and his vision is also limited, only staring at the two places of Ba County and Fuling County, just trying to do a good job in the business of these two places and not let people occupy them.

Especially now, Zhong Deping has passed away, and Zhong Lingyu is a little girl who is struggling to support the family business and facing various difficulties. In the eyes of Shopkeeper Ge and Steward Li, it is the best ending for the Zhong family's big house to maintain the status quo, and the rest, where dare to think.

But I don't want Zhong Lingyu to be a little girl, she has no experience in business before, she just followed Zhong Deping and learned some skills, but as soon as she took over the Zhong family's business, she was able to create such a pattern, and she was able to take it step by step, and her eyes had been set on Songjiang and other prosperous places, and the chessboard was so big, compared to those treacherous and cunning businessmen in Bacheng. Shopkeeper Ge can only use the word demon to describe Zhong Lingyu in his heart.

He stood up, bowed his hands deeply, and said aloud: "Everything is under the orders of the young lady." ”