The New Year is approaching, and there has been no good news in the palace since Concubine Deng Shu's pregnancy has passed.

The Holy Emperor's expectations became smaller and smaller, and his mind also turned to the affairs of the court.

Since the beginning of winter, there has been no rain in the north for a long time, and there has been no harvest of crops, and many people have embarked on the road to the south, begging to find a glimmer of life.

The Holy Emperor issued a decree to let the state capitals open warehouses and release grain to help the people tide over this difficulty.

But at the moment of the catastrophe, some people have come up with an excerpt and accused the Cangzhou prefect of being greedy for ink, resulting in no grain to put in Cangzhou.

The Holy Emperor was furious, ordered the Cangzhou prefect to be beheaded, and sent the minister to solve the disaster in person.

On the day the decree was issued, Yushitai Zhou Yushi hurriedly entered the palace.

"Is that true?"

The Holy Emperor asked.

Zhou Yushi nodded and said: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the report from Cangzhou, the Ji family business urgently sent a thousand loads of grain to Cangzhou the day after learning that Cangzhou had no grain, which solved Cangzhou's urgent need. ”

The Holy Emperor paced back and forth, the anxiety between his eyebrows disappeared a lot, he looked at Zhou Yushi, and said in a deep voice: "Summoning the head of the Ji family's business into the palace." ”

Zhou Yushi was stunned for a moment, and then arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, although this Ji family business is meritorious, but in the end it is a businessman, if Your Majesty wants to reward it, it will be rewarded directly, and besides, although they have shipped grain, it is not given away for free, at such an urgent juncture, he wants to make a fortune, and he is a real profiteer." ”

The Holy Emperor turned his head to look at him and said, "The merchant is also the common people of my Great Zhou, Cangzhou's difficulties, if he doesn't understand, what can you do?" In addition, the grain in his hands was also purchased by him with real money, and as long as it was not maliciously inflated in price, it was not unacceptable. ”

The Holy Emperor thought very clearly about this, if the Ji family business did not transport grain to the past, when the Qin mission passed, it would have to transfer grain from the surrounding county capitals, and it was unknown how much it could be transferred.

When the people are angry, it will be the biggest headache.

After Zhou Yushi was like this, he also figured out the key to it, and arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Then he withdrew.

Yun Rong hadn't left yet, and when she heard Zhou Yushi mention the Ji family's business, she noticed it.

At this time, when he heard that the Holy Emperor was going to summon the head of the Ji family's business into the palace, he couldn't help but think a little too much.

After all, the relationship between Ji Jinglin and Pei Yan, who died before, is a little unclear.

And now the Ji family's business is growing, and the Wen family also has shares in it, which affects the whole body.

She has to find out what to do, if Ji Jingyuan really has something to do with Pei Yan, she has to let her uncle leave the Ji family's business in advance.

Outside the palace gate, the street is full of the smell of porridge cooked with various beans mixed with rice.

Yun Rong suddenly remembered that today seemed to be the Laba Festival.

As the saying goes, eat Laba on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and after Laba is the New Year.

In a flash, it's been almost a year since she's returned.

Lifting the curtain, the bustle outside the car is even more lively than ever.

Yun Rong asked the driver to park the car outside a jade shop.

Not knowing what she was going to do, Lunon followed in.

When the guy inside saw her come in, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet her: "This young lady, what do you need?" Small shop ......"

"I'm looking for your shopkeeper."

The guy was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile: "I don't know what happened to the young lady looking for our shopkeeper?" ”

Yun Rong didn't say much, and took a token directly from her sleeve.

When the man saw this token, his face changed, he bowed down and raised his hand, "Miss, please upstairs, I'll go and invite our shopkeeper." ”

Yun Rong nodded and led Lu Nong to the second floor.

"Miss, what did you just show him? Look at what scared him. ”

She stood behind Yun Rong, and when Yun Rong showed the token to the guy just now, she only saw her raise her hand, but she didn't see the token in her hand.

Yun Rong took out the token and put it in the palm of her hand to look at it.

A gold-encrusted jade token appeared in front of her, small in style, only as long as two knuckles, surrounded by gold trim, and a green jade plaque in the middle was engraved with the word season.

Lu Non frowned and asked, "Miss, what is this?" ”

Yun Rong put away the token and said, "This is something that can command the entire Ji family's business." ”

On the last trip to southern Xinjiang, Ji Jingyuan gave her this token, and told her that there were three tokens, one for him, one for the Wen family, and the rest of the token was specially prepared for Yun Rong.

At first, she didn't want to accept it, but Ji Jingyuan said that since she was her sister, this token would be regarded as a gift from her brother to her sister.

That's when she took it.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but bend her eyebrows.

After a while, footsteps were heard outside the private room, followed by two knocks.

Lu Nong stepped forward to open the door, and saw a middle-aged man in his forties standing outside the door, the man's body was slightly blessed, but his eyes were shrewd, and it seemed that he should be the shopkeeper of this jade shop.

Before the shopkeeper came up, the guy told Yun Rong about holding the token.

Seeing Yun Rong at this time, he bowed and said directly: "I've seen the three masters." ”

Yun Rong was a little unfamiliar with the title of the third master, and was stunned for a moment before saying, "The shopkeeper is polite, just call me Miss Yun." ”

The shopkeeper arched his hand and said, "Okay, Miss Yun." Then he asked, "Miss Yun came over today, is it to check the accounts?" ”

Yun Rong waved her hand and said, "No, I just want to ask the shopkeeper to send a message to Ji Gongzi." ”

Although she got the token, she had no intention of interfering in the Ji family's business.

came over today, just to ask the shopkeeper to send a message to Ji Jingyuan and let him go to Beijing.

After all, businesses like the Ji family firm, which are open all over the Great Zhou, have their own unique contact information.

The shopkeeper nodded, answered 'yes', and asked, "Miss has anything else to do?" ”

Yun Rong shook her head and got up to leave.

The shopkeeper sent her downstairs, and said as she walked: "Recently, there has been a batch of fine jadeite in the store, Miss can take a look, and you can pick two to take back." ”

Girls generally love these.

The shopkeeper has been the shopkeeper for so many years, and some girls' hobbies are still thorough.

Yun Rong smiled and said: "There is no need for jewelry, if Ji Gongzi arrives, the shopkeeper will send someone to Yunfu to deliver a message." ”

The shopkeeper smiled and answered.

Only then did Yun Rong turn around and leave.

"Miss Yun?"

An exclamation made Yun Rong's gaze move over.

Not far away, Lou Mingyue was obviously very surprised to meet Yun Rong here.

Yun Rong walked over and greeted her with a smile: "Miss Lou, long time no see." ”

Lou Mingyue smiled and said: "It's been a long time, I asked my brother to invite Miss Yun last time, but I didn't invite it, I never thought I would meet here today." ”

Yun Rong suddenly remembered that before Qixi Festival, Lou Mingyue handed her a post, which she pushed, but later encountered it on the street.

Then the topic changed and asked, "Miss Lou came to pick out jewelry?" ”

Lou Mingyue responded and said, "I heard that the jewelry store under the name of the Ji family is good, so I specially came to have a look with Miss Fan today." ”

Only then did Yun Rong notice Fan Yueying following her.

Fan Yueying had a grudge with her for a long time, and when she heard Lou Mingyue mention her, she couldn't help but snort coldly: "Mingyue, what do you have to say to her?" It's all good jade ornaments, and she can't afford them. ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper next to her just wanted to make a sound, but was stopped by Yun Rong, she looked at Fan Yueying, and smiled: "Miss Fan is right, I am so poor, how can I buy the things in this store, then don't bother the two, I will leave first." ”

She didn't want to fight with Fan Yueying.

Lou Mingyue was stunned for a moment.

Fan Yueying snorted, then pulled Lou Mingyue inside, and said as she walked: "I know that I am poor, so don't come here to be an eyesore, your good mood has been ruined by you, it's really disappointing." ”

Yun Rong paused.

Lu Nong beside him couldn't be angry: "Miss Fan, how can you bully people like this?" ”

Fan Yueying turned around and glanced at her, since she was slapped by Yun Rong at the Lou family's flower viewing banquet, and later, because of the Tibetan medicine in the Qinzheng Palace, her father was extremely disappointed in her.

She has been locked up in the house some time ago, and now she finally came out, but she ran into Yun Rong, a disaster star.

New hatred and old hatred, Fan Yueying's hateful teeth itched, but Yun Rong didn't accept it, and she couldn't help it.

Now the maid next to her gives her a reason to be ashamed.

She looked at Lou Mingyue and asked with a puzzled expression, "Who am I bullying?" ”

Lou Mingyue was in a dilemma, so she simply stopped talking.

Lu Nong said angrily: "My young lady is not poor. ”

Fan Yueying chuckled, looked at her like a fool, and said, "She's not poor, but you let her buy two pieces of jewelry to see if she can afford it?" ”

Lunon looked at her smug look and opened her mouth, tears of urgency coming down.

Yun Rong looked at Lu Nong like this, and said to Fan Yueying: "I can't afford it, but the jade hairpin on Miss Fan's head should be the old model from last year, right?" In this capital, do you see which lady will wear last year's old style to go out? ”

As she spoke, she glanced at the shopkeeper, who came out with a tray.

On the tray is an emerald jade hairpin, the color of which is full of water.

Yun Rong picked up the jade hairpin and inserted it directly into Fan Yueying's head, and then said: "Miss Fan is talented and beautiful, I'm afraid that only this jade hairpin can line you." ”

Hearing her praise like this, Fan Yueying couldn't help but be a little dizzy, turned her head to look at Lou Mingyue and asked, "Mingyue, what do you think?" ”

Lou Mingyue nodded and said, "It's good-looking." ”

At this moment, the shopkeeper took a mirror out again, and the woman in the mirror was like a pink eyebrow, picturesque, looking at the jade hairpin on her head, she loved it even more.

She snorted at Yun Rong and said, "Even if you know each other, I'll let you go today, you can go." ”

After speaking, he said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, how much is this jade hairpin?" ”

The shopkeeper stretched out two fingers and counted them.

Fan Yueying nodded to the maid beside her, and the maid presented a silver ticket of two hundred taels.

The shopkeeper took the silver ticket and looked at it, and then grabbed Fan Yueying, who was about to leave, and said, "This young lady, this hairpin is not two hundred taels, but twenty thousand taels." ”