Duan Lan was psychologically unbalanced, thinking that his parents seemed to value him, but in fact, they had never looked at him with the same eyes as they did now when they looked at Duan Ling'er!

They have always been dressed up beautifully, and they will praise it, as if it is a matter of course, but they have never thought about it because of their own words or things.

For the first time, Duan Lan felt that in fact, he was also the one who had been neglected.

She stood there beautifully, but she didn't know what to do, but finally picked up the silver kettle next to her with one hand, poured a full cup again, and stared at Duan Ling'er and drank it in one gulp.

He is obviously the most dazzling, why is Xiao Jiu stealing the limelight now, and he still wants to be the most special one.

Intolerable!

Duan Tianya thought for a while and asked: "You are only nine years old, although your brother is thirteen years old, he still needs to experience many years of training, even if your father really gives you a part of the business and lets you follow other houses, what can you do?" Now that my father has promised to give you my brother's grange, why don't you help......"

Duan Ling'er straightened her back and interrupted Duan Tianya: "Father, the business of the Grange belongs to my brother, and what Ling'er wants is her own!" ”

Duan Lan slapped the table: "Don't go too far!" ”

Duan Ling'er ignored her, just looked at Duan Tianya and said: "Xiao Jiu understands his father's hard work for many years, and naturally he will not want to run the silk village, rouge shop, and pawn shop that have become bigger and stronger, besides, this is the industry of other houses, pouring the blood and sweat of other people, Xiao Jiu is thin-skinned and doesn't want it." ”

Xiao Su secretly snorted, are you thin-skinned? I look at you cheeky race walls!

After hearing this, Duan Tianya looked at the daughter in front of him, who seemed to be like a milk doll, and noticed that she exuded a sword-unsheathed momentum.

His eyes were obviously condensed: "Now the Duan family, in addition to these in the hands of several other houses, there is also the official salt and jewelry business, what, Xiao Jiu, are you so young that you want to leave Yangzhou and leave your aunt and follow your father?" You have a daughter's family, what kind of system is this! ”

Duan Ling'er shook her head unexpectedly: "Father, our Duan family's industry almost covers the basic requirements of the current high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital, but a larger part has not been considered by my father, or because of the lack of manpower. ”

Duan Tianya really saw the ambition in his daughter's eyes this time.

I saw Duan Ling'er slowly speak: "Father, you lend me a thousand taels of silver, and I want to open a restaurant in Yangzhou with the Duan flag!" ”

"Crazy, crazy!" Duan Lan shouted a few times: "Father! Xiao Jiu is crazy! ”

Wu said: "Master, Xiao Jiu is only nine years old, she is still a little woman, she wants to open a restaurant?" She's going to be in business? What a fantasy! ”

Xiao Su's head shook like a rattle: "Xiao Jiu, if you want to live a better life, you can ask the master for some pocket flowers, if you feel sorry for Brother Yu'er who doesn't understand business, we can also give you dividends in these industries in Yangzhou, and now you say that you, the daughter of the Duan family, are opening a restaurant in Yangzhou, who doesn't laugh when you hear it?" ”

Duan Ling'er raised her eyes and looked at everyone with clear eyes: "Why do you feel ridiculous to be self-reliant and earn living capital?" ”

Duan Tianya glanced at his daughter-in-law, then at Xiao Su and Wu, and turned his gaze to the jade wrench on his thumb, turning it slightly in a half circle. "Xiao Jiu, you go on."

Duan Ling'er clenched her fists.

She must seize this opportunity, she wants to get back everything that belongs to herself, to her mother and brother, to open up a corner of her current momentum in the Duan Mansion, and then spread out a face.

"Father, Duanfu's business is very big, and my brothers go south and north, but in Kyushu, there is not a restaurant with a Duanzi signboard. The second thing for food, clothing, housing and transportation, we should also give it a try! ”

Everyone stared at each other, but Duan Tianya stared at Duan Ling'er with a sinister look.

"Did your aunt teach you this?" Duan Tianya looked at the Shen family.

Shen stood up and blessed: "Master, the concubine has never been taught, but what Ling'er thinks is what the concubine thinks." ”

After Shen said this, he sat down and didn't look at Duan Tianya.

Duan Tianya sighed, it was impossible for Shen Suixin to return to the beginning with himself in this life.

He calmed down and didn't think about Shen and himself for the time being, but wanted to think carefully about whether what Duan Ling'er said was reasonable.

In fact, he thought about opening a restaurant for a long time, but he was troubled by the fact that there was no one among his children who could really calm down and study the food, and there were no trustworthy men.

His sons and daughters are all focused on the big business that can intersect with dignitaries and nobles, and none of them are willing to calm down to study stir-fried food and cook, and are willing to deal with ordinary people, hunters, and cooks.

The eldest lady didn't speak, she listened to what Duan Ling'er said in her heart.

As the wife of a businessman, the eldest lady knows how to be flexible.

The eldest lady lowered her eyebrows and looked at a turquoise gold bracelet on her wrist and thought for a moment, then raised her eyes and looked at Duan Ling'er in a complicated manner, weighing in her heart, and also wanted to see how much ability this concubine had, calculating whether it was suitable for her own use.

Duan Ling'er's eyes flashed: "Father, although our industry has been rising steadily over the years, our industry needs the support of high-ranking officials and nobles to spread out, and ordinary people can't afford to wear the No. 1 silk or the rouge of Yipinge." Why can't we think about what we eat? ”

Xiao Su's face was full of disbelief: "Yangzhou restaurants are full of streets, with your daughter's house, you want to deal with those cooks, chefs, and orions?" ”

Duan Ling'er said: "Sixth aunt, businessmen always have to eat when they go south and north, so they say that here in Yangzhou, there are many restaurants, but there are only a handful of cheap and delicious ones, and merchants often can't find a delicious and affordable restaurant, either hasty things, or spend a lot of money to eat and drink, so it is still profitable to do a restaurant for middle-level consumption in Yangzhou." If it is said that girls are not suitable for showing their heads, then Ling'er only needs to know people with a discerning eye and hire people who are knowledgeable and reliable. ”

Xiao Su didn't even want to listen to it, and even said a few absurdities, and everyone in the front hall followed suit.

Xiao Su was about to speak, but Duan Tianya waved his hand and stopped her.

Duan Xiao, who had been silent, took a basin full of raspberries from the girl's hand, put it on the table in front of Duan Tianya and the eldest lady, turned his head and said to Duan Ling'er: "Sister Ling! Do you think restaurants are so good? If you don't really know how to cook, if you don't know how to cook and stir-fry, you accidentally eat someone to death, and you eat someone who is sick, and it is easy to sue for your life! ”

Duan Ling'er was also stunned when she saw Duan Xiao suddenly speak, and then nodded: "My sister is right, I know this." ”

After the first and second columns, there were Duan Mansion's daughters-in-law and the people below, all of whom had different expressions and could speak in the clan, Duan Ling'er swept over quickly, most of them lowered their eyebrows and were pleasing to their eyes, under the prestige of Duan Mansion, the daughters-in-law couldn't seem to remember who was who.

Since Duan Ling'er made a request, the whispering at the table has not stopped, and the people behind can't wait to take a look at this Fujiu girl.

"Xiao Jiu is indeed shocking, but there is some truth when it comes to it......" Duan Tianya, who was sitting at the top, coughed, as if he was thinking.

The eldest lady was silent for a long time and then swept her throat: "Xiao Jiu, it's good to have a heart, but do you really have this ability?" ”

yes, does she have the ability?

Isn't it just a shame?

I think it's just nonsense!

……

Everyone talked about it for a while.

Duan Ling'er refused to give in, she clenched her fingers involuntarily, and then let go calmly.

She also wants to gamble that she will be reborn and have no chance to re-establish a father-daughter relationship with her father.

looked straight at Duan Tianya: "Father, a few days ago, Xiao Jiu was watching fish in the garden, and a few maids said that Xiao Jiu looked very much like you, probably not only because of his appearance, but also because of Xiao Jiu's personality and ambitions." Although Xiao Jiu is a woman, she also has the ambitions of the Duan clan and the blood of the Duan clan. I have the ability! ”

The situation froze for a while, and I saw Shen Shi stand up, walk to the center of the main hall, and kneel down to Duan Tianya: "Master, please give us a chance in the ninth room." ”

Duan Yu also knelt down: "Father, please give us a chance." ”

The three people in the ninth room plus An Niang knelt on the ground, tilting their heads and not giving in.

This kind of shock, Duan Tianya has not encountered it again for a long time.

"Little Nine." Duan Tianya stood up and seemed to have an idea.

"Your request is understood by the Father." Duan Tianya ignored the resentment of the eldest daughter and the second daughter, he turned his gaze, closed the tea bowl in a trace of the rising fragrance of tea, handed the tea bowl to the maid behind him, and said to his sons, "Although you have traveled from south to north, none of you can calm down, and now Xiao Jiu has put forward what he has thought about his father for many years......

Suddenly, a sobbing sound interrupted Duan Tianya, and everyone looked at it, Duan Xiao, who had been speechless, cried into tears: "Father...... I think, I miss my mother...... I also want to start my own business......"

Duan Tianya was stunned for a moment, and Xiao Su immediately said: "Yes, Sister Xiao'er is now her biological mother, if the girls in our house can do their own business, then Sister Xiao can also support herself, do you still need to be raised by Mrs.?" It's nonsense! ”

Duan Ling'er finally realized the strangeness of Duan Xiao at this time, she took a deep look at Duan Xiao, but she still felt that what was in front of her was just a child half a year younger than herself.

Are you thinking too much......?

Duan Ling'er temporarily put aside her doubts about Duan Xiao, she raised her head, just looking at Duan Tianya in front of her, this time even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of her, she didn't want her to take half a step back

The second child wanted to speak, but the boss secretly stopped him.

"Doing business requires hard work." Duan Tianya opened his mouth: "But if you bring it up, your father is willing to give it a try, but what your aunt said is not unreasonable, if everyone in this mansion goes to business, the family rules will not exist." For the father to give you a test, if you can really prove that you are different from other Duanfu daughters, or even more capable than your brothers, then I will approve of you. When you have passed the test, come back to the Father and say the following. ”

"Sir!" Xiao Su's expression stiffened, and he opened his mouth dryly.

The eldest lady raised her hand and stopped Xiao Su.

Duan Tianya's thick eyebrows were clear and heroic, and his gaze casually swept over the people in front of him: "I have four granges in the suburbs of Yangzhou, one of which has the worst harvest, raising dozens of people in the Zhuangzi, but I can't pay the public grain every year, I have been thinking about selling this Zhuangzi." Now this grange is temporarily managed by Jiufang, and in my month in the capital, if Jiufang can turn this grange into a profit and hand over twice the public grain of other granges, then it proves that Jiufang has brains. But if it's not satisfactory, Xiao Jiu, you will break your mind and be grounded for a year. ”

"Father!" Duan Yu stood up suddenly, this is too unfair, twice the public grain of other granges, that is a full thousand taels of silver! How is it possible that this test is so difficult, obviously difficult?

Duan Yu said eagerly: "Please ask my father to change the test?!" ”

Duan Tianya smiled slightly, it was certainly not easy to get his own approval.

At that time, he stood out from several brothers because of such a test, and after being recognized by his father, he opened up his own world by the identity of a concubine.

Now this daughter, a concubine, but she does not flinch, which makes him inexplicably think of himself back then, this daughter proposed to give it a try, so give it a try.

"Thank you, father." Duan Ling'er raised her head with a tough face: "Xiao Jiu will definitely do his best." ”