Seeing that Mei Xiaotong was silent, Mrs. Li was afraid that her daughter would soften, so she hurriedly said: "Girl, don't be soft-hearted, it's not our turn to come out in this matter, marry your father for the first time, and marry yourself again." Although Song Chunhua has given birth and raised, she has never officially married, so she naturally has to listen to the family's arrangements. Even if the An family is not authentic, and it is not good to sell a girl, others can't say half a word, and they don't come forward if they don't see the head of the An family? ”

Mei Xiaotong is nothing else, poor people must have something to hate, Song Chunhua's bitter fruits today are all caused by herself, and she can't complain about others.

She just felt uncomfortable and felt out of place.

In this era, the status of women is low, and all kinds of bodies are involuntarily, and most women are used to it, agree with it, and even become accomplices.

It was only at this moment that she felt this gap deeply. She can be so comfortable in the Mei family, thanks to the mother of Mrs. Li, if it weren't for Mrs. Li, no matter how powerful she was, it would be difficult to fight against this era alone!

Thinking of this, Mei Xiaotong approached Mrs. Li, leaned on her arms, and closed her eyes...... Mrs. Li was a little unresponsive by her daughter's sudden hug, and was stunned for a moment before patting Mei Xiaotong's back: "Xiaotong, what's wrong?" But it didn't go well in the mountains? Or are you worried that An Huahao will come back to blame you? ”

Mei Xiaotong didn't speak, only shook her head.

"Silly girl, our family has lived for decades before, didn't we raise you too? Even if things don't go well in the mountains, don't be afraid, there are still a few months left, it's really not possible, our whole family will go into the mountains to find the jade mushrooms, and we can always get it together. ”

"It's really not enough, let's talk to Boss Zhang and make it up to him next year." If it doesn't work, our family will pay him silver. This is a family matter, where do you have to worry about a girl's family? ”

Mei Xiaotong's heart was warm and sour when she heard this, her eyes were a little red, and she hugged Mrs. Li's waist tightly, "Mother, it's good to have you!" ”

Mrs. Li seemed to pat Mei Xiaotong heavily, but the force that actually fell on her was so light that even mosquitoes couldn't shoot to death, and deliberately kept a straight face: "What a girl, and you still have a coquettish ...... with your mother."

When he said this, his heart was really useful, and his eyes were full of joy.

was annoyed, and worried again: "But I'm worried that Hua Hao will come back and blame you for not stopping Song Chunhua from being a concubine?" Don't worry, if he is confused and wants to blame you, see how his mother cleans him up! ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Li remembered the matter and slapped Mei Xiaotong: "Speaking of this, when An Huahao took medicine before, I heard it at the time and felt wrong, but I couldn't see his eyes clearly for a while, and then went to the town to vent his anger for him, and I forgot about it." Mother told you, An Huahao is not authentic in this matter! ”

"He is now a man of the Lord, isn't he a man who feeds his whole family and is not hungry, and thinks about you without thinking for himself, so that the poison can be eaten at will? What if the antidote doesn't work? My mother thought a few days ago, when the big house is up, if your fourth brother and the girl of the Liu family can succeed, I will do it for you together. But this happened

, my mother thought to herself, I would have to wait two years to see what you do! ”

"An Huahao, this child is still good, but he doesn't care about the front and the back, and he has to grind his temperament if he doesn't put you in front, otherwise he will get married in the future, and this temperament will be enough for you. You have to remember, this man, you can do everything before you get it, and I won't take you seriously when I marry home. Mother won't hurt you to ......" Mrs. Li said bitterly.

Mei Xiaotong did have a pimple in her heart because of this matter, and she knew more and more about Mrs. Li's goodness because of Song Chunhua's incident, and nodded without hesitation: "Mother, I know that you are all for my good, and you listen to my mother!" ”

Mrs. Li smiled, don't blame her for loving her daughter the most, how obedient and caring her daughter is, who is like those white-eyed wolf sons, for their good, they still think that their mothers want to harm them!

The mother and daughter went into the house affectionately.

Zhou, who was far away, saw Mrs. Li enter the house, so he dared to come out, pouted and wanted to mumble a few words, remembering what Mrs. Li said, and then thinking about Anjia, Zhou hurriedly swallowed the complaint.

Since then, Zhou has been a lot more honest. She herself also found that she complained less in front of Mei Xiaoque, and Mei Xiaoque and several children were closer to her.

The Zhou family is not stupid, where still does not understand, whether it is true or false, anyway, there are fewer complaints, and the Mei family is a lot quieter.

Mei Xiaotong went to the cave every two days to see the growth of the jade mushroom.

As soon as I arrived in the valley that day, I felt that something was wrong, as if someone had been here.

Cautiously, before he took two steps, he saw An Hua Haocong

When he came out of the cave, his eyes lit up when he saw Mei Xiaotong, and he hurried up to meet him.

"Xiaotong, you're here!" As he spoke, he was going to hold Mei Xiaotong's hand.

Mei Xiaotong's reflexive hand shrank, and An Huahao took a break.

An Huahao's eyes darkened, and he didn't know what to do in his heart, but he looked like he was unconscious: "I see that you have laid floating soil in the hole, what are you planting?" ”

Mei Xiaotong doesn't think there is anything to hide from this, he will always know about the jade mushrooms planted in the future.

Dafang replied: "I signed a contract with Boss Zhang that day, and the most important thing is the jade mushroom." The yield of jade mushrooms is small and not easy to obtain, so I tried to see all kinds of things. ”

An Huahao recalled that Mei Xiaotong sold jade mushrooms to Zheng's shopkeeper, and suddenly had a number in his heart.

In addition, after taking the medicine given by Mei Xiaotong this time, his eyes only recovered in a few days, not to mention that his eyesight seemed to be better than before, and he could see clearly at night in the past two days.

Combined with all the previous things, An Huahao didn't know that Mei Xiaotong had secrets, but the two of them tacitly agreed.

Entering the cave, Mei Xiaotong checked the situation of the jade mushroom, and everything was fine.

Over there, An Huahao had already roasted a hare, cooked a pot of soup, and beckoned her to come over to eat.

Eating fragrant roast rabbit, Anhua Hao will be

The things that have been done in the past few days have come slowly.

After he returned the silver tickets to the shopkeeper, he was publicized the next day.

In addition, after Qin Orion and Shopkeeper Zhang heard the rumors in the town when they went out, they were angry and anxious, and they had nowhere to defend.

The two of them are now being pointed at when they go out, and they have no face, and they are worried about the punishment of their masters.

After thinking about it, I finally made up my mind and ran away overnight.

After putting away the gold and silver, and looking around the courtyard, Shopkeeper Zhang hesitated: "Anyway, we have to leave, and we can't take this house with us, so it's better to leave it to him." After all, we can't stand him, and if this idea is given to him, we can settle it. ”

Qin Orion snorted coldly, but acquiesced, took out the deed from his arms and threw it on the table.

The shopkeeper also took out the deed, and turned out the contract of the bookstore and held it with an inkstone.

wrote another letter, roughly saying that the two of them voluntarily donated the two courtyards and the bookstore to An Huahao, signed and put them together with the house deed.

The two of them picked up the package, and listened to the silence outside the door in the dead of night, so they quietly opened the door a crack, slipped out, and quickly disappeared into the night......

They didn't see it, they didn't go far, and they followed several groups of people up behind them.

Speaking of this, An Huahao glanced at Mei Xiaotong.

Mei Xiaotong Si Wenwen nibbled on rabbit meat and took a sip of soup before speaking: "Are you done?" ”

An Huahao didn't know why, he felt a chill on his back, and said busily: "Not yet, I received a message and rushed back to tell you." ”

Mei Xiaotong said slowly: "It just so happens that you are back, and I also have news to tell you." ”

An Huahao added a bowl of soup to Mei Xiaotong diligently: "What news?" ”

Mei Xiaotong spoke: "The day after you left, the An family found her a foreign businessman, surnamed Zhao, in her fifties, and sold it to the surnamed Zhao as a concubine." She was not happy, and cried and said, "Please go and save her......"

Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, I wish you the New Year in advance! I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year and all the best! Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by An Huahao: "I know." ”

"You...... You know? Mei Xiaotong was stunned.

"When I came back from Liu's house, I heard the wind." An Huahao's expression was cold, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"Now that the relationship has been severed, what does the matter of the An family have to do with me? If I really believe in helping her, why should I bother to cut ties with her in the first place? That's fine, as long as she doesn't be a demon, she can live her life, so as not to stay in the village and be sold back and forth by the An family......"

Mei Xiaotong's mind moved, listening to An Huahao's words, it seems that he still has a hand in this?

However, Mei Xiaotong didn't bother to ask, she passed on the word that what An Huahao did was his business, and he couldn't control it.

So the topic was diverted: "You said you heard the news to tell me, what is the news?" ”

quiet

Hua Hao couldn't tell if it was disappointment or what, and changed the topic along Mei Xiaotong's meaning: "Do you remember Boss Natian?" ”

Mei Xiaotong paused for a while before remembering who Boss Tian was, and her eyes lit up: "Is there any news from Boss Tian?" ”

She set up that bureau and waited to see what happened to Boss Tian.

An Huahao nodded: "The day before yesterday, the people in the county came back with news. ”

On that day, Boss Tian deliberately stayed near the entrance of the village, created a little accident, and got the hairpin dropped by Sun Afu, like a treasure.

When I went back with the hairpin, I found a henchman to check the recipe.

That guy is also an old man who has accumulated years, and he is also a veteran in dyeing cloth.

Immediately, I tested a batch according to the recipe, and the dyed fabric was really pure and bright.

Boss Tian was still not at ease, and sent someone to buy the same color fabric from the auspicious cloth line, and once compared, it was exactly the same.

Suddenly overjoyed, this Tian family is about to develop.

At the moment, with this newly dyed fabric, he rushed to the provincial capital, and the noble man was now in the provincial capital.

Boss Tian hurried to the provincial capital and spent countless amounts of money to make the henchmen around the nobles mention himself.

He was summoned to him.

Boss Tian naturally wouldn't say that he was a cloth dyed by stealing a recipe, but only said that he and his guys had experimented with a recipe, and he had come to present it to the nobles.

When the nobles saw the fabric, their eyes lit up first, and this color was the most popular crimson in the capital today.

This color is only sold in the auspicious cloth line, and the quantity is scarce, and it is even more popular.

Countless fabric shops bought this material and went back to study, but they didn't dye it.

I had to watch the auspicious cloth shop make a lot of money.

Now I didn't expect someone to dye it again, and the nobleman was also surprised and delighted, so he asked the cloth to be presented.

There are countless people around the nobles, who naturally know the cloth, take the cloth over and look at it carefully for a long time, and compare it with the fabric of the auspicious dyeing workshop.

After a long time, he nodded to the nobleman, indicating that there was no problem.

The nobles were overjoyed, so that they took the fabric to the front to inspect it in person, and accidentally splashed the tea on the cloth in joy.

A maid next to her stepped forward to wipe it with a handkerchief, and when she wiped it, the snow-white handkerchief was immediately dyed red.

The more the maid was flustered, the more the color was stained, not to mention that the color on the fabric seemed to have been wiped off by the veil, and the color of the wet piece became darker and darker.

The maid was so frightened that she knelt on the ground to plead guilty, and the nobles realized that something was wrong.

With a calm face, he asked his subordinates to take the whole cloth into the water, and after a while, he came to report, saying that as soon as the cloth was wet, the color would fall to seventy-seven or eighty-eight, and the whole cloth was deep and shallow, mottled and very ugly

。

The nobleman's face sank at that time, and he asked Boss Tian what was going on.

The cloth of the auspicious dyeing workshop will not fade after being put into the water

。

Boss Tian's legs were weak at that time, he didn't understand anything, he was afraid that he was fooled.

I want to explain but I don't know where to start, where is the noble man impatient to listen to a small boss of a cloth mill complaining about grievances, he had high hopes, but he never thought that he was deceived and couldn't save face.

directly asked people to drive Boss Tian out, and also ordered that no shops under his name were allowed to have any dealings with Boss Tian in the future.

When Boss Tian heard this, it was as if the sky had fallen.

was rejected by the nobles, and before he came, he ordered his dyeing workshop to dye crimson cloth with all his might, and all his belongings were pressed on it.

Now that there is a problem with this fabric, the family business of half of his life is completely ruined.

Boss Tian returned to Jing County in a daze and thought of Sun Afulai.

Suddenly anger rose from his heart, he was all killed by Sun Afu, a woman. There are more than enough successes and more failures, and even this little thing can't be done.

Since his family business has been harmed by this woman, Sun Afu doesn't want to have a good life.

He entrusted someone to spend money to get Sun Afu out of prison, and then sold people to the lowest private dormitory.

offended the nobles, and all the silver was smashed into waste fabrics that faded as soon as they were dipped in water, and Boss Tian was helpless, the business could not continue, so he thought about selling the fabric shop and the dyeing workshop.

Disheartened, he planned to fold some silver and go back to his hometown to buy some land for retirement.

Mei Xiaotong immediately understood when she heard this, "But Boss Tian's shop can't be sold?" ”

An Huahao raised his eyebrows: "Now everyone knows that he offended the nobles, and he handled the shop and asked the buyer to receive the fabric together, who was stupid to take this hot potato?" Therefore, even if the price is pressed and pressed, no one cares. ”

Mei Xiaotong couldn't help but laugh, from the time she set this trap, what she was waiting for was this result, which was really happy.

Seeing Mei Xiaotong smiling, An Huahao was in a better mood, and carefully suggested: "Now that his shop, if we press it again, it can be cheaper, so let's buy it......"

Mei Xiaotong's heart moved, this is a good suggestion, even if this shop is not used for the time being, it is good to buy it and rent it out, or make it a branch of Jixiang Dyeing Workshop at that time.

What's more, the so-called dyed waste cloth is a lack of recovery for others, but she can save these cloths in just one step, which is a good thing.

hesitated for a moment, "How much silver does it cost to buy this dyeing workshop and shop now?" ”

The mountain goods business has to continue, there must be liquidity, and all she has in her hand is the gold rewarded by the lady in the palace.

The dividends of the dyeing workshop have not yet arrived, and if she asks for too much silver, she can only give up.

"Today's price is 1,500 taels, if I wait a few more days, I estimate that 1,000 taels can be won." Anwar Hao analysis.

"One thousand taels...... It's too much for me to take that

So much silver, forget it......" Mei Xiaotong pondered for a moment and gave up in pain.

"Xiaotong ......" An Huahao suddenly felt guilty, a few days ago, Xiaotong had 1,500 taels in his hand, as well as land deeds and calligraphy and paintings worth thousands of gold.

But it's all because of his unspeakable plans, and now he has to give up because of a thousand taels.

Seeing Mei Xiaotong's originally bright eyes dimming and giving up in pain, An Huahao's heart hurt like a prick. Swallowing his saliva, An Huahao tentatively spoke: "Xiaotong, this opportunity is rare, I can still find a way to make up some, let's take down Boss Tian's shop, otherwise it will be cheaper for others." ”

Mei Xiaotong was really reluctant, listening to An Huahao say this, she calculated in her heart that as long as she took care of Boss Tian's shop and inventory, and added another process to those fabrics, she could turn waste into treasure.

When the time comes, even if these cloths are sold to Zheng's shopkeeper at a low price, they can make a lot of money.

With a plan in her heart, Mei Xiaotong nodded: "Okay, then even if I borrow it from you, I will write you an IOU when the time comes, and wait for me to make money." Even the principal and interest will be returned to you, and you will never be at a loss. ”

An Huahao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Xiaotong, what is mine is yours, where do we need to see the outside like this?" ”

Mei Xiaotong shook her head: "We haven't married yet, so it's better to distinguish clearly, so as not to be unclear in the future." ”

An Huahao's heart tightened, looking at Mei Xiaotong's slightly distant expression, and there was a dark whirlpool surging in the depths of his eyes.

He also tried to keep his composure: "That's no need, just when we buy it together, we will also do business together." Xiaotong, you can do what you say, I will never say anything. If you make money in the future, you can give me as much as you want, and if you lose money, it's mine! ”

No matter what, he won't let Mei Xiaotong leave him alone, and he has to be tied to Xiaotong to fight to the death!

Mei Xiaotong keenly felt the repression and strength hidden under An Huahao's calm appearance at the moment.

She knew in her heart that An Huahao was a smart and sensitive person, but she was afraid that she had noticed her estrangement.

So it was necessary to do business in partnership and tie the two together.

Partnering with someone is not a partnership, if she is not in a hurry to change money, she can do something else. What's more, with An Huahao's state at the moment, he still expects him to take him to buy a shop, and he can't do it if he doesn't agree.

Glancing at An Huahao, Mei Xiaotong nodded.

(End of chapter)