At this moment, Suning'er had probably guessed the topic that Wen Jiqing and Su Jing were discussing behind closed doors a while ago.

Su Jing treated her well, she didn't want to see this uncle being swept into the Beiya Party in a daze, and becoming the minions of the Beiya Party to collect money abroad.

She said to Su Jing very seriously: "Second uncle, since you are grateful for the emperor's grace, Ning'er thinks that the imperial court has allocated disaster relief funds to make up for the loss of Sannong, and our Su family is a big silk family, this time the second uncle of Yima might as well hand over all the silk to the imperial court, the price, or according to previous years." ”

"You girl is really wealthy", Su Jing suddenly lost his good face, and said sharply: "This year's silk output must not be as good as before, but at this time, the sea route is warming, and the demand for silk has increased sharply. ”

Saying that, he waved his hand a little impatiently: "You are a girl's family, you don't understand this when I tell you, in short, we have to follow the general trend in business, if I Su Fu insists on going his own way, wouldn't it be a mess of the rules." ”

He was so serious, but Suning'er felt that what he said was against his heart.

In the past few days of coming to Sufu, she also has some understanding of the silk industry.

To say that in the book, the silk merchants are mainly from Shuzhong, Hebei, Hezhong and Jiangnan, in addition to the handicraft workshops of the palace officials, the folk belong to the Su family and several silk merchants in Hebei produce the most silk.

But at present, the war in the north is not peaceful, the silk in Hebei can hardly enter the imperial court, and most of the brocade in Shuzhong has to be paid tribute to the palace, so only Jiangnan and Hezhong can be relied on.

Supplying tens of thousands of war horses to the Shence Army, not to mention nearly a million pieces of silk, is a difficult and huge expenditure for the current imperial court, if her second uncle colludes with Wen Jiqing to take this opportunity to collect money, it is really a bit unconscionable.

She knew that Su Jing was just a businessman after all, and she couldn't change her mercenary nature, but once she was linked to Wen Jiqing, Su Jing would inevitably be implicated when she overthrew the Beiya party in the future.

Knowing that Su Jing was already a little displeased, she still wanted to comfort him a few more words: "Second uncle, Ning Er knows that the Su family has a good future in the past two years, you want to take advantage of the situation to prosper the Su family's ancestral business, Ning Er is in the boudoir and doesn't understand business matters, but Ning Er still wants to say something to the second uncle, Wen Guogong can value our Su family, we should be grateful to him, and we should give the same thing, but Ning Er also hopes that the second uncle will not forget the fate of the Tao family, this world is the world of saints after all." ”

Su Ning'er's words made Su Jing stunned suddenly, and he was stunned in the hall for a long time before he came to his senses, and sighed: "A-Ning, the second uncle you said has been recorded, don't worry, the second uncle has his own measure, today is your birthday, let's not mention other things." ”

After a pause, he glanced at Qi Shi with heavy eyes, and continued: "Your sister and brother are coming over soon, I'm afraid that your usual playmates will also come, you take your mother back to the room first, wait for Ah Xiang and Ah Que to come over, and I will tell their sisters and brothers to go to Tanghua Courtyard." ”

Su Ning'er bowed deeply, didn't say anything more, and glanced at Qi Shi face to face, only to see that the woman had a wooden face, and seemed to have fallen into deep thought.

She stepped forward to hug Qi's family, and the mother and daughter slowly walked towards Tanghua Courtyard, several girls followed behind, keeping a distance not too close, and they all had a deep face.

After being silent all the way, passing through the two Langfangs, and arriving at the door of Tanghua Courtyard, Qi suddenly asked: "Ning'er, what you said to your second uncle today is that you suspect that he has something to hide from Wen Guogong in the silk business?" ”

Su Ning'er shook her head blankly: "Ah Niang, I don't know what the second uncle is doing, I heard that our Su family has produced a lot of silk over the years, in addition to the share handed over to the palace, there is also a lot of trading with Hu merchants." ”

"That's true", Qi pursed his lips and nodded shallowly: "In previous years, most of the silk produced in Hebei was sent to the palace, and there were many in Shu, but this year there was a war in the north, and I heard that the area in Shuzhong was a little fluctuating because of the new saint's accession to the throne, and the silk cloth in many places could not be harvested, and the workshops of the palace were far from meeting the supply and demand of this year, and we could only rely on the big silk households in the river and the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Speaking, her words changed: "However, A-Niang didn't hear your second uncle talk about how our Su family's workshop was affected, a few days ago I also heard the stewards of Yangzhou and Hezhong Mansion send people to say that this year's silk harvest is good, and our workshops are concentrated in Hezhong Mansion, Yangzhou, Suzhou, not the hardest hit area, I think the impact will not be too big, if you look at the silk output in previous years, it can make up for the gap in the north, not to mention that your second uncle built a few new workshops last year." ”

With Qi's analysis, Suning'er's heart became clearer, and she could completely conclude that there was really something greasy in it, and she only hoped that Su Jing could really listen to those words.

Qi Shi thought for a while, and continued: "The sage treats Ning'er well, A-Niang knows that it is natural for you to want to share the worries of the sage, but our family is only a businessman after all, and your second uncle's words are not unreasonable, the general trend is the trend, and many things are not within our control, since we have a share of the city, we can't completely abandon this path, the world is unpredictable, if one day we can't do the business of the imperial court, our Su family still has to rely on Hu Shang to survive, and your second uncle also has his difficulties." ”

At this point, Suninger agrees with Qi's opinion.

She smiled with relief: "A-Niang has always taken care of the overall situation, and the second uncle is willing to listen to A-Niang's words, as long as A-Niang is here, Ning'er will not be able to make too much trouble in the house." ”

Qi suddenly stopped, and sighed thoughtfully: "At present, the imperial court is indeed very difficult, and if there is a war in the north, it will cost money to supply the forbidden army and military supplies, the sage treats Ning Er so well, our Su family cannot live up to the emperor's grace, Ning Er also relaxes, if your second uncle is really suspected of enriching his own pockets, I will properly persuade him, we can't earn money in this country, even if we can't hand over all the silk produced to the government, but our Su family still has some dominance in terms of price." ”

This is exactly what Suning'er means, the Su family's silk output is huge, and it can fully balance the supply and demand of the silk industry this year, she believes that with the Qi family in charge, it will definitely be able to prevent Su Jing from doing foolish things.

Not long after returning to Tanghua Courtyard, Li Wanwan came to the house.

It's just that when I saw her today, she looked sullen.

Wan Niang handed over the birthday gift she had prepared to Suning'er, and said frustratedly: "I was thinking of choosing a gift for your good life, but Aya suddenly ordered A-Niang to reduce the expenses of the house a few days ago, and my monthly money was only half a silver coin, so I could only go to the East Market to pick a pair of hairpins for Yiniang, which was a disappointment." ”

Seeing that his face was full of shame, Suning'er said with joy: "I'm already very happy that you can come, why bother with this." ”

After that, she kindly grabbed Wan Niang's slender jade fingers, and while walking towards the side room, she couldn't help but ask curiously: "Wan Niang also said a few days ago that Ling Zun gave you a monthly increase, how did you suddenly reduce it, you are also the daughter of the household department Shangshu now, how can you spend half a silver money." ”

Li Wanwan sighed sadly: "It's hard to say." ”