Zhu Youning also felt that his emotional tone was a little inappropriate for those who didn't get such an honor, and he couldn't help laughing. She picked up the blue and white pen holder and looked at it, then carefully put it back in place.

"With these things, the 400,000 taels will be easier to raise."

"It's like 400,000 taels of silver, not silver, but treasure money." Yan Sui looked at her helplessly, "I didn't expect you to come up with this statement at that time." ”

Zhu Youning instructed Thrush and Bai Ling to carefully put away these imperial gifts, and sat down in the front hall with Yan Sui.

Yan Sui then said: "You don't have to have too much pressure. Although 400,000 taels of silver is a huge amount of money, if it really doesn't work, I can find a way to make it up. You really don't have to worry about the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce. ”

Having said this, Yan Sui chuckled, and the beautiful lying silkworm under Peach Blossom's eyes made his smile extraordinarily bright.

"You can help me testify in court, which is already a great favor for me. Wouldn't it be too cheeky for me to look at you and ask you to raise money? ”

Zhu Youning was dazzled by his laughter, and secretly congratulated that she was "well-informed", and all types of beautiful male stars have formed a lot of immunity, otherwise they wouldn't let this demon confuse their minds?

"You have to be thick-skinned and dark-hearted, or how can you mix it up in the future?"

Yan Sui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed again, talking to Zhu Youning is so interesting, he doesn't have to go to the theater, he doesn't have to go to the market, he just sits and chats, he will feel that time flies very quickly, as if it is a day in the blink of an eye.

Maintaining such a happy and relaxed mood, it will soon be Chinese New Year's Eve.

The subordinates in the Bofu gave them a holiday, and the rest were rewarded with rich wine and food, and the rest of the people on duty could enjoy the New Year.

Yan Sui and Zhu Youning gathered together with their cronies to celebrate the New Year. The food is all authentic Beijing cuisine, and the drink is the pear blossom stuffed by Yan Sui.

The night was dark, and fireworks were lit in both the east and west directions of the imperial city.

Zhu Youning stood side by side with Yan Sui in a big wool cloak, looking at the bright fireworks blooming in the sky on both sides of the east and west, and couldn't help but miss home.

On this day, she is not at home, and I don't know how the New Year will be spent at home.

Yan Sui lowered his head sideways, and saw Zhu Youning's beautiful side face and flickering eyelashes. Although she had a smile on her face, her eyes were a little sad.

Yan Sui understood: "Miss Nine must be missing her family." ”

"yes. There is a little bit. Zhu Youning laughed, and when she breathed, the hazy white mist in front of her blurred her expression.

"But in the past six years, most of my studies have been away from home, and my parents are used to not being around. Anyway, there is a strong brother in the family. Thinking of his younger brother, Zhu Youning said with a smile, "People say, 'Seven-year-old and eight-year-old dogs are also disgusted', Brother Zhuang is naughty, my mother is busy with his affairs all day and has no energy to care about anything else." ”

"You haven't been at home much all these years, is Brother Zhuang close to you?" Yan Sui asked.

Zhu Youning shook his head: "I don't have so much time to accompany Brother Zhuang'er. However, Brother Zhuang and Sixteen are very close. ”

Looking back at Sixteen, who was eating wine with Feilong soup and button meat in the room, and seeing that his mood was not gloomy, Zhu Youning said again: "This is very good." ”

"Yes." Yan Sui raised his head, and the colorful light in his eyes was projected, successfully concealing his surging emotions similar to pity.

A girl shouldn't have to bear this.

He knows everything in her family, her father is not this material, her mother is just an ordinary weak woman, if she doesn't want to be trampled on, she doesn't want to be slaughtered, she can only carry everything at a young age.

Once you have entered this circle, there is no turning back. Therefore, she has only been away from her parents and relatives in the past six years, and even separated from her younger brother, just to enrich herself and support the court in the future.

Even now, even the life and death of her mentor are on her shoulders.

What's more, her money bank still supports so many people, and her words can determine the fate of so many people.

No one understands her hard work better than he does. Because his experience is similar to hers.

Zhu Youning thought of the things at home, and his face was full of smiles.

"I'm quite satisfied with my life now."

Zhu Youning said with emotion: "When my father was kicked out of the Zhu family when he had an accident, our family couldn't eat enough, my mother was kidnapped by my grandfather, I was thrown into the heavy rain and had a serious illness, if it weren't for the old doctor Jiang who was in the countryside at the beginning, I might have died a long time ago."

"It was at that time that my father received the help of Daddy Liu, so he has always been grateful, and later received the support of Mr. Yang, and my father's energy has been spent on the nursing home all these years.

"The children of my age, whom my father helped at the beginning, are now older, because they are literate, some of them are smart and can learn arithmetic, and my father has learned to calculate accounts, and now they have found good jobs to do, and they will in turn help the orphanage.

"When they saw my father, they would never mention the fraud again, they would only call him Mr. Zhu, and they would only be grateful to him, and my father seemed to have come out of the shadow of the fraud case. A person has the spirit and spirit, and the body is strong. It also relieved me of my worries. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youning realized that he had talked so much about trivial things with Yan Sui, and he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

Yan Sui smiled with great interest: "Ling Zun is a respectable person, there are many people in this world who flaunt their morality, but how many people are really willing to pay for the sake of pity for the weak, and how many years have been like a day?" ”

Zhu Youning smiled. Actually, she thinks so, too. Although Zhu Huating is not a businessman, he is really a very gentle and kind person, who knows how to care about her better than Bai, and gives her extremely deep fatherly love in her growth.

Zhu Youning smiled and said, "I just said I went." I don't know what your home is like, Qiongzhou is too far away from here. ”

Qiongzhou in this era is equivalent to the barbaric land of northern Xinjiang in terms of the capital.

Yan Sui was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then smiled lightly: "My family is not as famous as your family, my grandfather's family has lived by pearl diving for generations, my mother, and my uncles are also like this." Later, after I became a businessman, my family gradually developed, and no one in the family had to go pearl diving in person. ”

Zhu Youning nodded, and found that Yan Sui only mentioned her grandfather's house, and what she said was not detailed, so she guessed that there might be something inconvenient to say, so she thoughtfully did not ask in detail, but said: "You don't go home for the New Year, I think your family will miss you." ”

"yes. When I gain a firm foothold in the capital, I will pick them up. ”

Zhu Youning said with a smile: "So you are also self-made, and it is really amazing to be able to develop so far." ”

Yan Sui looked down at her, "Each other." ”

Zhu Youning was stunned for a moment and chuckled.

She never felt that she was powerful, on the contrary, in ancient times, she had been walking on thin ice, and she had to study hard in order to survive. However, as soon as Yan Sui said it, she had a little more confidence.

Zhu Youning spent the New Year in Bofu, and on the first day of the first month, he went to meet Fang Jinrui, who is still living in the inn.

When Fang Jinrui saw Zhu Youning coming, he didn't say a word, he first tested her coldly, and sweated until she asked, and then nodded with satisfaction.

"It seems that although you are busy, your studies will not be wasted. Although you are a woman and do not have the opportunity to pass on the Golden Palace, you must not live up to your efforts over the years. ”

"Yes, students must live up to the teachings of their teachers."

"Hmm. You're good. Fang Jinrui was still very satisfied with his only little apprentice, and specially instructed the store to prepare a table of Zhu Youning's favorite food, and the two had lunch together.

After eating, Zhu Youning said: "If the teacher wants to stay in Beijing, it is very inappropriate to stay in the inn." It's not as good as ......."

Before Zhu Youning could say anything, Fang Jinrui had already waved his hand to interrupt her: "You don't have to think about helping me buy a house, although the capital is a rice pearl, the saint will not treat me badly in the end." You better go back to Fuyang earlier, and the girl's family should not be involved in the matter of entering the capital. ”

Zhu Youning knew that Fang Jinrui was thinking about her, and he also knew that Fang Enshi's character would not accept her gifts, so he didn't force her, just thinking that she wanted to grow stronger as soon as possible, compared to saving Fang Jinrui's life, the matter of a mansion was insignificant.

After Zhu Youning returned to Bofu, he thought carefully about Fang Jinrui's words, and originally wanted to investigate the business opportunities in the capital again, but after replying to the letter quickly, the idea of returning to Fuyang was overturned.

After the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youning said goodbye to Yan Sui again.

"Time is tight, and I shouldn't stay long."

Yan Sui was a little reluctant, and said, "If you don't have fifteen, you should go back." There is a lamp market on the fifteenth, and there is a temple fair, which is another one with the fifteenth in Fuyang. ”

Zhu Youning smiled apologetically: "Thank you for your kindness." It's just that I plan to go to Hangzhou first, and I can finish the silver business, but I don't have a heart. I am afraid that if we delay for a long time, there will be variables. ”

Yan Sui lowered his eyes and sighed: "Okay, I will order someone to prepare it for you, and I will also prepare a big gift for Brother Li to thank him, and please bring it back with you, and when there is a chance in the future, I will invite him to eat and drink." ”

"Okay. Brother Bei has always been anxious for your wine. ”

Hearing her call Li Tuobei so intimately, Yan Sui felt inexplicably uncomfortable in her heart, obviously she didn't feel anything before, after all, Zhu Youning and Li Tuobei grew up together, and they were naturally different from others.

But now he's got the horns up.

Now that the schedule has been set, everyone is busy.

After notifying the Eighth Master of the Buddha, on the day of departure on the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Eighth Master of the Buddha also joined the team of Zhu Youning's entourage.

In this way, Zhu Youning has two guards from Jinyi by his side.

The name of the eighth master of the Buddha, Feilong soup has long been heard. However, the origin of the Flying Dragon Soup is unknown to the Buddha Eight Masters. Zhu Youning would not take the initiative to tell him, and the Eighth Master of the Buddha only judged that Feilong Tang was the person of Jinyiwei based on his own observations.

The eighth master of the Buddha was a little more curious about Zhu Youning's situation in Fuyang.

Yan Sui took Steward Yan and Yan Fei and sent Zhu Youning out of the capital for more than ten miles.

The carriage slowly stopped beside the official road, and Zhu Youning lifted the curtain and said to Yan Sui, who was riding a dark cloud and covered the snow with her car: "Sending you a thousand miles must be goodbye in the end, uncle, let's stay." ”

Yan Sui looked at Zhu Youning's appearance like a jade ice sculpture in the shadows, his hair was like black sandalwood, his lips were like Dan, and his eyes were rolling when he looked at him with a smile, which made his heart move, and he blurted out as soon as his brain was hot: "You and my friend, you don't need to call me uncle, but it looks raw, if you don't dislike it, call me by my name." ”

Zhu Youning blinked, always feeling that it was inappropriate to call a man's name, and it was even more inappropriate to call the words.

Yan Sui saw her hesitation, and suddenly felt that her proposal was too inappropriate.

Even Steward Yan, who had been with him for many years, was a little surprised.

Steward Yan was surprised to find that their uncle's neck was covered with a thin layer of red.

Embarrassed, Zhu Youning rolled his eyes and asked with a smile: "How many are you doing at home?" ”

Yan Sui said: "I am an only child, and I am the boss. ”

"Okay, then I'll call you Boss Yan in the future."

Yan Sui was amused by what she said and laughed, "It's like I'm the bandit leader of some mountain." ”

"So what's the same, I didn't call you 'big boss'."

Yan Sui couldn't help but remove the word "big" in his heart, and the red tide on his neck was dyed all the way to the root of his ears, and he coughed before saying, "It's not time." Let us depart, lest we delay our lodging. I'm going to go to the banks of the Yellow River in a few days. I'm in communication with you then. ”

"Good. Leave. Zhu Youning smiled and lowered the curtain.

The Eighth Master of the Buddha, Feilong Soup, Buckle Meat, Sixteen and others all said goodbye to Yan Sui and Yan Steward. The convoy slowly stepped into a barren snowfield.

Yan Sui stopped for a moment, and before he returned to the Uncle's Mansion, he could already imagine the silence in the Uncle's Mansion. It's just that there is a guest in the guest house, and the house seems to be deserted.

It seems that he should have brought his mother and grandfather as soon as possible.

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The way back is easier than when you came. One is that they are more prepared on the road, and the other is that the further south they go, the easier the road will be, and the warmer the weather will be.

When they left the capital, the world was covered in snow.

When you enter the city of Hangzhou, you will see a new green.

"Girl, should we go back to Zhu's house, or should we go to the inn to stay?" Outside the carriage, Buckle Meat leaned closer to the window and asked.

"Hangzhou City has our family's industry, so it's naturally not good to go to the inn. Uncle Liangtang hasn't heard from him yet, but let's bring the royal gifts, and it's not in the way. After going back, it is just time to repair it, so that everyone in the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce can gather in one place to leave time. ”

"Yes."

Everyone rushed to Zhu's mansion.

Zhu Hualiang didn't know the news of their arrival, and he was really not in the mansion. It was Zhu Hualiang's outer chamber Cao who came out to greet Zhu Youning. Because the Cao family gave birth to a son for Zhu Hualiang, he has now raised his aunt. There is no need to settle the province in the morning and dusk here, and the Cao family knows how to advance and retreat, and the Zhu family is in good order.

Seeing Zhu Youning, Cao Shi happily held her hand: "I haven't seen you for many years, I can't imagine that Miss Nine has such a standard appearance, I almost dare not recognize it." ”

"Auntie praised it."

Zhu Youning smiled and looked at a five or six-year-old boy wearing a bright green brocade jacket on the side, and said with a smile: "This is Brother Huan, right?" ”

"Exactly, Brother Huan, haven't you come to see your cousin?"

Zhu Yanhuan walked to Zhu Youning with short legs, looked up at her curiously, and called out in a milky voice: "Cousin! ”

Zhu Youning smiled and gave Zhu Yanhuan a small purse, which contained two golden peanuts, and gave him a set of four treasures in the study, and said with a smile: "Brother Huan will be able to study in the future." ”

Cao Shihuan happily took Zhu Yanhuan to thank Zhu Youning, and said with a smile: "Master, where have I already ordered someone to send a letter, and I will come back later, just now they said that Miss Nine brought the imperial gift?" ”