Mrs. Mei pulled her and talked for a long time, but when Xiao Ling'er went out, Mei Chengan was still waiting for her in the gazebo in the courtyard.

Just holding the book and sitting there quietly, Wen Yan obediently guarded to the side.

Xiao Ling'er only looked at it from a distance, and felt that the corners of her mouth had begun to hook up and smile.

She didn't care that this was Mei's house, and trotted in the direction of Mei Cheng'an, bypassing him from behind, and mercilessly imprinted a kiss on his cheek.

Wen Yan was startled, but he already had the experience of being in Boss Mu's pharmacy last time, so he immediately got used to it, and his eyes drifted to the side. Mei Chengan was slightly stunned, and pulled Xiao Ling'er over dotingly, "Finished talking?" ”

"Well, it's been a long time, it should have been a long time, because I'm starting to miss you." Xiao Ling'er smiled and squinted, this feeling was too good. He is hers, and finally he doesn't have to care about his identity, he doesn't have to hide it, he can express his likes and thoughts unscrupulously, and even those love words that she used to think were numb to her flesh, she felt that it was so natural to say.

"It's okay, I didn't think it took long." It's a pity that this kind of logical skill, the wood nerd Mei Cheng'an didn't learn it so quickly. But fortunately, there is no kung fu learned in his mouth, but Mei Chengan is not stingy in his hands.

He reached out and touched her head, then pulled her towards his yard.

"Grandmother, I didn't embarrass you, did I?"

"Of course not, the old lady is quite talkative."

"Really?" Mei Chengan snickered, "It's the first time I've heard this sentence, and the feeling of looking at people is really different." Grandmother is strict and very methodical, otherwise do you think that she has managed the entire Mei family's business by herself for so many years. ”

"yes, yes." Wen Yan on the side couldn't help but speak, "Aunt Xiao, you don't know, in the past, as long as someone made a mistake, whether it was at home or in business, whether it was a subordinate or a young master, the old lady would not recognize her at all, but now even if it is better, but we, the subordinates, are still very scared when we see her!" Look at the second young master today, it wasn't the old lady's words, so he was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground. ”

"That's right." Xiao Ling'er tilted her head, she saw that Mrs. Mei was quite kind, and she didn't expect that she was also an iron lady before. However, it can also be seen that although he spoke to her so kindly, he still came and went with a little temptation and scrutiny, "Probably, it is the wife of Master Mei, I am very likable, you see, the old lady still gave me this?" ”

Xiao Ling'er raised the wooden box in her hand and opened it, and inside was an agate pendant.

This time, Mei Chengan believed it, "It seems that grandmother really likes you, but she was ready to give this pendant to the Mei family's granddaughter-in-law, but I didn't expect to meet you once and give it to you." ”

"Daughter-in-law?" After Mei Cheng'an said this, the more Xiao Ling'er looked at this pendant, the more she felt good-looking. The old lady honestly did not deceive her, she did have great hopes for herself to become the real granddaughter-in-law of the Mei family, "Then I have to put it away, and when I can really be qualified to be a granddaughter-in-law one day, I will wear it again." ”

"Ling'er?" Mei Cheng'an heard the other meanings in Xiao Ling'er's words, was slightly stunned, stopped and turned around, "Did you promise grandmother anything?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Ling'er did not shy away from it, "I promised her that until I have the capital and the ability enough, I will temporarily let you retract the idea of letting me be the grandmother of the Mei family." ”

"Why do you bother? If I insisted, my grandmother wouldn't disagree. And thou knowest that my sickness ......"

"Don't talk nonsense." Xiao Ling'er didn't wait for Mei Chengan to finish speaking, so she covered his mouth, "It's not just to keep your grandmother from being embarrassed, I also think it's not the right time." You shouldn't want to, I, the eldest and youngest grandmother of the Mei family, will make others laugh at me and the Mei family when I marry in, don't you still believe me? Besides, you've wasted half a year waiting for me, why are you afraid of making me wait for a position now. ”

Xiao Ling'er said, taking Mei Chengan's hand, "You believe me, I will definitely be able to do that day, and when the time comes, you will definitely marry me in style, I want all people not to dare to laugh at us, they can only envy." And Mei Cheng'an, I don't allow you to say anything about your illness and your lack of time, promise me, we will live every day we have now, and we will earn every moment in the future, so don't think about unhappy things, okay? ”

Mei Cheng'an's expression still flashed a trace of hesitation, but after all, he took Xiao Ling'er's hand tightly, and nodded with a warm smile, "Okay, everything, listen to Madame." ”

"Then let's talk about it." Xiao Ling'er took Mei Cheng'an's arm, "The old lady also allows me to come according to my own will, so in the next time, I am still ready to continue to live with my mother-in-law and them, but I will come to see you when I have time, if you want me, you will also go to my place." ”

"Okay."

"And what's next for you?" Xiao Ling'er asked again, "It should be easier now, although the old lady still takes care of the Mei family's face, but for Mei Yongxin, if he was sent to a place so far away from Suxiang, he couldn't stay in Tang County and the Mei family, so his previous hard work would be in vain." ”

"It's not that simple." Mei Chengan pursed the corners of his lips and said slowly, "After all, what happened this time really made me see Mei Yongxin's strength." ”

Mei Yongxin came into contact with the Mei family's business later than him, although he has been racking his brains to take away the shop and business from himself and has not succeeded, but I have to say that he has indeed done a lot of things over the years.

Just taking this incident as a matter of course, he can easily find people to harm others and grab the fields, he can do tricks on the herbs that are urgently transported in the north of Baicaotang, and he can also make those two shopkeepers easily believe his words and help him implement his plan. Just now in the hall, his plan was successful, and many of the shopkeepers under the Mei family came out to open their mouths for him to be rewarded.

These are not the people he usually can contact more in the East Street shop business, but Mei Yongxin is a person who does not forget to win over the past.

In the past few years, in a place that he can't see, I'm afraid that Mei Yongxin has indeed spent a lot of effort to take away the sovereignty of the Mei family.

"He's not as incompetent as I thought, but just in time, when he can't stay in Tang County, I can slowly repair these branches that he has infiltrated little by little."

"It's easy, I'm sure you can do it." Xiao Ling'er is not worried, with Mei Yongxin's ability, her husband can deal with several of them. However, she remembered something again, "By the way, when I was in the hall, I heard you mention that Yi Gongzi is going to move to Tang County to live?" ”

When she first listened, Xiao Ling'er was still startled, she didn't dare to believe it, and she didn't think about Mei Yongxin's matter.

Mei Chengan nodded, "There is such news, Yi Gongzi is already dealing with the affairs of Yu'an City, and he has also started to send people to Tang County to choose a place to repair the residence, as for when it will arrive, it is not clear, and it should not be moved to the agenda until the residence is repaired." ”

"This guy really wants to come out of it."

It's been more than half a year since Yi Gongzi left Tang County last time.

I haven't seen him since then, but I have received a few special foods or calligraphy and paintings from him, and even the music scores given to the Leqin girls are sometimes simply sent to the medicine canteen for them to pass on, but the person has never appeared again.

Who would have thought, he actually came to Tang County. I didn't expect that this small place in Tang County is really enough to accommodate a lot of Bodhisattvas, and even the big Buddha of Yi Gongzi has to drill here. I really don't know what will happen in Tang County at that time.

"Forget it, come on, anyway, if he comes, maybe the business of the medicine canteen will be better." Xiao Ling'er shrugged her shoulders, "I've been thinking about opening a branch with Sister Shishi during this time, the key is that the top-level connections have not been opened, and the business development has not been able to improve, I am afraid that the opening of a branch will not have much improvement, and the progress of this work is always delayed again and again." ”

Mei Chengan couldn't help laughing, fortunately, he was already used to business, and those strange words would always pop out of this girl's mouth, so it was not strange, "If you pressed the price in order to take care of the guests, you will naturally lose some of the powerful, but this kind of thing is actually not difficult." ”

"Do you have any ideas?"

"Didn't you come up with the idea a long time ago?"

"Huh?"

Mei Chengan smiled again and nodded her little nose, "When the medicine canteen opened, you just caught Yi Gongzi and his family to seize so many business and business opportunities." Similarly, Yi Gongzi is sought after by everyone, and in the eyes of the powerful people in Tang County, there are also people who must be followed, and if you can grasp this, you will definitely be able to open the connections you want. ”

"Who will make the rich followers?" Xiao Ling'er muttered, but looking at Mei Chengan's appearance, it seemed that she only planned to stop here, she held him and continued to walk forward, but she kept thinking about his words in her mind.

Powerful? The powerful people naturally love the powerful more, so what they follow should be the most talkative official in Tang County.

Yes, that's right, no matter what kind of business it is, it always has to do business under the nose of the official, the official family is willing to loosen, the business is better, and it can be regarded as giving the imperial court certification, and in previous years, the shops with the inscription of the official family will do a lot better.

The most talkative official in Natang County is naturally the county official.

However, he is not a good person to deal with.