Han Duanli sighed, his face turned kind, paced back to the side of the big case, took out two bags from the pile of account books, handed them to Guo Wan, and said gently: "This is sent by my grandfather's friend from the south, I don't need it here, you should take it." ”

Guo Wan hurriedly took it with both hands, and didn't look at what it was, but smiled: "My granddaughter has favored my grandfather's good things again." ”

Han Duanli laughed, brushed his beard and said, "It's not a rare object, it's just two pieces of old ink, I think you can use it." ”

Guo Wan has been reading and learning with her master since she was a child, Han Duanli was raised by her as a boy, and she still had some other thoughts, but later saw that this granddaughter was smart and sensible, and her heart fell into a heart of cherishment, and because of the difficulty of achieving her earlier wish, she simply didn't care about it, and only became more and more kind to this granddaughter.

These two pieces of old ink are easy to say, but in fact, they were bought from others with great effort, and the process is also very tortuous, but he usually doesn't like to talk much, but he just wants his granddaughter to be happy.

Since Guo Wan returned home, he always felt that Guo Wan was widowed because of himself, and he felt extremely guilty about it.

Back then, he insisted on marrying Guo Wan to the Qiu family, thinking that with the strength of the Han family, his granddaughter would not suffer, but unexpectedly, the Qiu family boy died of illness at a young age, but let his granddaughter be widowed at a young age.

Every time he thought about it, he would feel very sorry for Guo Wan, and his way of compensation was to send good things to Guo Wan in piles.

Han Duanli's mood, Guo Wan understood very well, at this time, when she heard the words, she deliberately burst out with a happy smile, and said happily: "It turned out to be Gu Mo, my granddaughter likes these the most, thank you grandfather for the reward." ”

Seeing her overjoyed appearance, Han Duanli was greatly relieved, and said something Wen Yan, so he ordered her to go, and then called Qingfeng in and instructed him: "You go and invite Steward Shao." ”

Qingfeng took the order and left, and not long after, a man about forty years old, slightly fat, and looking very kind, walked in with Qingfeng, it was Shao Zhong, the chief steward of the Han Mansion.

"You're coming fast." Han Duanli said with a smile, waved his hand to go down, and said to Shao Zhong: "I guess you should be idle at the moment." ”

"The old lady guessed right." Shao Zhong said with a smile, he looked very loyal and honest, and he couldn't see the slightest shrewdness at all.

However, if you think that this middle-aged man who has no city to laugh is easy to deal with, you are very wrong.

He has been able to follow Han Duanli for many years, and he has always been extremely respectful, so you can see that this person is by no means ordinary.

Looking at the gradually vast sky outside the window, Han Duanli's face became a little solemn, and when he spoke, his voice was slightly deep: "After a while, you go out for a walk with me." ”

Shao Zhong has been with Han Duanli for a long time, and he knows him very well, as soon as he saw his expression, his heart immediately jumped, and after a moment of silence, he stepped forward and lowered his voice and asked, "Old lady...... Are you going to go to the appointment of the sixth master of Nading? ”

"Yes!" Han Duanli put his hands up, and his thin face instantly crossed the yin owl: "My Han family has been pressed on the head, and I have been pressed for more than ten years, and I have to look at the face of the head when I take a breath." I've had enough of these days! ”

A green tendon on the corner of his forehead bulged sharply, just like his voice that suddenly turned cold: "Now that the opportunity is in front of me, if I don't seize it, how can I be worthy of my ancestors and ancestors?" ”

Shao Zhong raised his head slightly, as if he wanted to see his face clearly, and his voice was extremely worried: "Old lady, what is the origin of that Ding Sixth Master, we haven't found out yet." In case he can't tear open the net of Dengzhou, the Han family will ...... in the future."

"Backwards?" Han Duanli interrupted him, and a mocking look spread across his cheeks in an instant: "Just rely on it for a few years without dying, can this also be called the future?" ”

Shao Zhong was stunned for a moment, then his face darkened slightly, and he lowered his head: "What the old lady said is true." ”

Han Duanli turned his head to look at him, and on his cold face, there was an untimely light smile: "Those shops in Hejian Mansion can't hold on?" ”

Shao Zhong bowed his waist, and his face became more and more difficult to look at: "If you go back to the old lady, this year's accounts are really not good-looking." ”

"You only came back last month, and tell me about the shop." Han Duanli said expressionlessly.

Shao Zhong said: "Because the goods we buy are second-class, and the Hejian Mansion is now fashionable and the materials next to it are in vogue, so there are some goods in the warehouse." ”

"How many percent?" Han Duanli asked, his expression still very light.

"Back to the old lady, I have accumulated about fifty percent of the goods." Shao Zhong's amiable face no longer saw the smile of Maitreya Buddha, and there was a little more shame in his expression: "The old lady forgives her sins, it's too useless to be small......"

"It's none of your business." Han Duanli interrupted him, raised his hand, his five fingers were stretched, his palms were down, and he made an upside-down posture, his face suddenly cold: "We are being pressed by others, you have great ability, and you can't turn over the palms of other people's hands." ”

He withdrew his hand, half-clenched his fist hanging down to his side, and his expression was gloomy: "People pay attention to shopping around in business, but what about us?" His voice seemed to come out of his throat, hoarse: "No matter what new and good goods are out there, we can only wait and see, because there is only one place for us to buy goods - that is the business house under the name of that person, and that's it, we don't ask for anything." But what kind of and stuff are all the things that the business house gives us? ”

He seemed to hate it very much, but his expression was numb, like a walking corpse: "The best and most fashionable goods, we can't touch them at all, but those old goods that can't be sold are all pressed to us, and the price is two percent higher than the outside." In this way, people are still willing to give us food to eat, otherwise we would have starved to death a long time ago! After finishing speaking, a very cold smile appeared on his face again, and said: "Now those shops are still holding up, and you still have a good plan." ”

When Shao Zhong heard this, there was a trace of sadness on his face, and he lowered his head again, and his voice was very low: "The old lady has tormented the villain." The old lady doesn't blame the villain, the villain himself has to blame himself. ”

Han Duanli didn't speak, only sighed.

There was a brief silence in the room.

After a few breaths, Shao Zhong's stiff back straightened a little, as if he had made up his mind, he breathed deeply, and his kind round face suddenly crossed a point of firmness: "The villain thought about it carefully and felt that the old lady was right." Rather than being held alive like this, it is better to ......"

Speaking of this, he raised his head suddenly, and a pair of small squinted eyes burst out at this moment: "It's better to just find a new way!" ”

"That's true." Han Duanli immediately agreed.

He had already had this in mind, and now that he saw that the most powerful steward around him also thought so, his clenched fist was also loosened, and he was burdened with it behind his back again.