In the evening, Cai Qin hurried back, Huo Roufeng was not in her yard, two seven or eight year-old girls were kicking shuttlecocks in the yard, and when she saw Cai Qin, she hurriedly smiled and told her: "The eldest lady left the ninth master to eat, and my sister went to the eldest lady's yard to find it." ”

Cai Qin has been serving Huo Roufeng for eight years, and she will not be as ignorant as these two little girls, what can let the eldest lady know, what can't let the eldest lady know, she has a rod and scale in her heart.

She returned to her room, covered the door, opened the box at the head of the bed with the key, and took out a half-sewn small dress, which was not hers, it was made for Huo Roufeng.

Huo Roufeng's clothes are all sewn by the most famous master in the Huo family's own embroidery workshop, but the intimate clothes are made by picking celery.

Cai Qin sighed in her heart while flying the needle and threading, she was already eighteen years old, even if she was not released from the house, she couldn't stay by the side of the ninth master forever. Although there are many people serving around Jiu Ye, he knows that Jiu Ye is his daughter, and now she is the only one.

She never said anything about it to anyone, not even her own mother.

In the past, Jiu Ye was still young, she just had to watch it closely, but now that Jiu Ye is getting older day by day, in another year or two, I am afraid that anyone with a discerning eye will be able to see it, what should I do if it really comes to that time?

There was a knock on the door outside, and Cai Qin hurriedly put the needle and thread in her hand back into the box, straightened her clothes, and asked, "Who?" ”

"Sister Caiqin, I'm Caihe, I'll tell you something." A soft crisp sound sounded outside the door.

Before Cai He's words fell, Cai Qin opened the room and said with a smile: "I just came back, I was changing my clothes, come in quickly, what's so urgent?" ”

Cai He is a second-class maid next to Huo Roufeng, sixteen years old, and a child of the family.

"Didn't the ninth master say yesterday that he wanted to hear us read the whole book of heroes? Early this morning, I asked Baotian to buy it, but in the afternoon, I didn't see Baotian come back, so I went to the outer courtyard to guard, just now Baotian came back empty-handed, I asked him why he went for so long and didn't buy the book back, guess what he said? He said like a cannon.

Cai Qin frowned slightly and asked, "Isn't it just buying books?" What else? ”

Caihe said: "Baotian said that the whole book of the Heroes is only available in the Chuan Wen Tang, and he ran all the semicolons of the Chuan Wen Tang in Hangzhou City, and the group of Ying Chuan was obviously placed in the shop, but he refused to sell it to him, either saying that the book was misprinted and not sold first, or that the shopkeeper should keep it for himself." Over the years, the errand of purchasing things for the ninth master was done by Baotian, he thought it was a coincidence at first, but so many family branches are saying this, he is not stupid, he knows that this Chuwentang is greasy, but this matter categorically can't be told to the ninth master, Sister Caiqin, do you say that this has something to do with our family's business? ”

Cai Qin's eyebrows are deeply locked, Chuwentang is carving books and selling books, doing the business of readers, and Yongfeng is well water does not violate river water, what is wrong today?

In the past few years, Baotian has taken the errand to buy for the ninth master, and most of the people who open shops in Hangzhou know him, that is to say, it is not that he does not want to do his business, but he does not want to do the business of the ninth master, or he does not want to do the business of Yongfeng.

She was about to ask a few more questions, when there was a voice from outside, it was Huo Jiu who came back.

Cai Qin hurriedly told Cai He: "If the ninth master asks, he will say that he didn't buy it, and he has already said hello to the bookstore, and he will let people go to see it tomorrow." ”

Cai He promised to go out, Cai Qin put on a relaxed and happy look, and walked to see Huo Roufeng.

Huo Roufeng was wearing an apricot-yellow shirt, and her jet-black hair was tied into a pair of small buns with two jasper rings, lining a small face with a skin that was better than snow and picturesque eyebrows.

Cai Qin entered the house softly, made a look, and all the maids in the house withdrew, and Cai Qin said softly: "Ninth master, the slave and maid asked clearly, the merchant came twice last month, but at that time, he only talked and laughed with the big girl and the little daughter-in-law who bought the goods, and his speech and behavior were very regular, and he didn't say anything else. ”

"The merchant said that he was from Xiaoshan, and they all called him Second Brother Zhang, and my mother said that the man had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, without the smoothness of an ordinary merchant, and looked like he had read a book, a bit like an errand boy from a big family."

"A big family on an errand?" Huo Roufeng came to his senses and sat up straight.

Cai Qin nodded, and what Cai He said to her just now suddenly flashed in her mind, she said: "Just like our family's treasure field, they can be seen outside, and the big families are different from ordinary merchants, and there are rules for everything they say and do, even if they want to change it, they can't change it." ”

Huo Roufeng nodded, and said to Cai Qin: "Tell your mother, if that merchant comes again, I want to drag people down, and then let people come to the house to deliver letters." ”

Cai Qin withdrew in response, walked to the door and remembered the matter of Chuwentang, thought about it, and decided to try again tomorrow.

The next day, Cai Qin sent her brother, who was only ten years old, to buy back the entire book of the Heroes when she arrived at the Chuan Wen Tang, apparently as she guessed, it was not that the Chu Wen Tang did not want to sell the book, but did not want to sell it to the Ninth Master.

She didn't delay, told Huo Roufeng about it, and asked, "Ninth Master, have you dealt with Chuwentang?" ”

Bundo?

Huo Roufeng touched her head, she remembered, she tore up a broken book in the Chuan Wen Hall.

It's because of this incident that all the branches of Chuwentang in Hangzhou don't do her business?

What kind of road is this Chuwentang, is there such a business?

At the same time, Huo Rouyun, the eldest lady of Huo, was listening to a big shopkeeper complaining: "Our family and the Cao Gang have long said hello, and we will send the boat on the tenth day of the first month of next month, but early this morning, the three masters of the Cao Gang came over and said that we would be a few days late, saying that the Lu family was going to send the boat, and they were all together, and they couldn't arrange it for a while." ”

Huo Rouyun's brows moved slightly, and she asked, "Lu family?" Is it the Lu family who has in-laws in Pengchengbo's Mansion? ”

The big shopkeeper nodded: "It's the Lu family, saying that this batch of goods belongs to the third master of Pengcheng Bofu." ”

Peng Cheng Bo Mansion is the queen of the queen's maiden home, the emperor to the queen of the blue eye, three months ago, Peng Cheng Bo Mansion changed to hereditary replacement, this is the first one among the relatives since the establishment of the dynasty, I didn't expect that even the Cao Gang in the rivers and lakes would give them face.

Huo Rouyun said: "A few days later, a few days later, we are transporting silk, as long as it is properly kept, it doesn't hurt to have a few days at night, you seal a red envelope of 1,000 taels to the three masters of the Cao Gang and send it over in person." ”

The big shopkeeper promised in his mouth, but he didn't mean to leave, Huo Rouyun glanced at him and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

The big shopkeeper said: "This batch of goods from Lu Jiayun is all seafood, I thought it was strange after hearing about it, since it is seafood, you don't have to get on the ship in Hangzhou, why bother with it?" Therefore, people secretly inquired, but it turned out that the owner of this batch of goods was not only the third master of Pengcheng Bofu, he actually only accounted for a small share, and the reason why he was on the ship in Hangzhou was because the major shareholder was the second master of Changfang. ”