The two were silent for a long time before Li Tuobei took a deep breath and said with an optimistic smile: "It's okay, I'm too lazy to go out, I'm tired of riding in the car on a cold day." ”

Zhu Youning wanted to speak and stopped, but finally nodded and said, "Then tell me when you are ready, and I will ask someone to pick it up." Also, I want to borrow flying dragon soup from you and let him escort me to the capital. ”

Li Tuobei heard this, but it was not the same as before.

In the past, when Zhu Youning went out, Li Tuobei took the initiative to send Feilong soup and button meat to Zhu Youning, so that these two people could help run errands and protect Zhu Youning's safety.

This time he hesitated.

Seeing his embarrassed face, Zhu Youning thought about it and understood: "Is it inconvenient for him to go to the capital?" ”

Li Tuobei nodded and said apologetically: "I also know a few brothers who are good at fist and foot kung fu and are also very good people, so I'll introduce them to you when I go back." ”

Zhu Youning nodded when he heard this, Li Tuobei dared to introduce her, and his kung fu would not be bad, and his character could be guaranteed.

"Then I won't go looking for people anymore, I'll rely on Brother Bei."

"Don't worry, the people I'm looking for will be safe. If you take it to the capital, it won't give you a loss. ”

Zhu Youning couldn't help but giggle when he looked at him when he patted his chest and assured.

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Tuobei came with two men and a woman.

The older man's name was Dou Junzhang, and he looked older than Zhu Huating, but after asking, he learned that he was fifty-five years old, but he looked like he was forty years old. In his early years, he walked through darts, and he also worked as a boxer for large families, and he was very stable.

The young man in his early twenties was Dou Junzhang's son, named Dou Zhi, and the twelve or thirteen-year-old girl was named Dou Wanwan, who was Dou Junzhang's daughter. The brother and sister are also martial arts since childhood.

Dou Wanwan is a head shorter than Zhu Youning, and she looks like a shriveled bean sprout, but her eyes are very smart, and she is clever at first glance.

Zhu Youning smiled and talked to them, so he asked Dou Junzhang and Dou Zhi, father and son, to be the guards, responsible for the safety of the road, and asked the meaning of the Dou family, leaving Dou Wanwan by his side, and said: "You don't have to be a servant girl on weekdays, just follow me." ”

Dou Wanwan nodded, "I just pretended to be a girl, but in fact, I relaxed the vigilance of others and followed the girl to protect the girl's safety." ”

Zhu Youning couldn't help laughing when she heard it, and praised her for being smart.

Zhu Huating naturally didn't worry about his daughter going to the capital at a young age, and he also arranged for someone to hire four boxers with good fist and foot kung fu to escort her all the way.

When everything was ready, Zhu Youning ordered someone to tell Xia Zongping the date of departure.

In this way, they traveled overland for forty days, and finally arrived in Kyoto on the sixth day of the winter month of the 28th year of Shengtian.

Zhu Youning held a brass hand warmer, put his little face in the silver fox fur collar, and hid in the carriage reluctant to get off.

She woke up in Fuyang and took a while to adapt to the wet and cold weather of the local winter. Now that she has been going north all the way, she has been blown by the biting north wind and the snow particles a few times, and she misses Fuyang again.

"Girl, the person we arranged first has already set up a small courtyard at the Yuelai Inn, let's go?" When the convoy entered the city, Dou Zhi came to the carriage and asked.

Zhu Youning nodded, and Dou Wanwan immediately said outside: "Brother, the girl said to go to the inn first." ”

Immediately afterwards came the shouts of the people leaving the journey and the kicking and tapping of the horses' hooves.

The group settled down in the inn. After Zhu Youning ate and washed, he wrapped himself into a ball and spread it on the warm kang, and ordered someone to send a prayer post to Renyibo's mansion.

Sleeping comfortably and warmly, Zhu Youning got up early the next morning, Zhu Youning changed into a silver-white cloud brocade gown, wearing a fox armpit cloak on the outside, and a lying rabbit with a pearl embedded on his head, so he took Bailing, Dou Wanwan, Si Mo, Dou Junzhang and Xia Zongping out of the door. The carriage was followed by two carts full of congratulatory gifts, all the way to Renyibo's Mansion in Shihu Hutong.

Zhu Youning helped Bai Ling and Dou Wanwan's men get out of the carriage, looked up at the four gilded characters of "Renyi Bofu" hanging high above the gate, and then looked at the clusters of new powder walls on both sides of the stretch and the two big stone lions at the door, and couldn't help laughing.

Smith stepped forward and knocked on the door.

explained his intention, and a middle-aged man in his early thirties greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Miss Zhu is fine. Below is Liang Qing, the housekeeper of the Bofu. Liang Qing bowed and said politely: "Please wait in the side hall first, Uncle has a guest now." ”

Zhu Youning nodded with a smile, and ordered someone to hand over the gift list for herself and Li Tuobei to Liang Qing, and asked Bai Ling, Si Mo and Dou Junzhang to follow to hand over the congratulatory gifts and gift money, and he took Dou Wanwan and Xia Zongping to the side hall to have tea.

The maidservants in the side hall are all very smart, wearing new blue brocade pinching teeth and nails, and wearing beaded flowers on their double buns, and they are more expensive than the ladies of ordinary big families in Fuyang.

After everyone retreated, Zhu Youning picked up the blue and white bowl and took a sip.

Xia Zongping, who had been tense and nervous, relaxed a little at this time, and said in a low voice: "I didn't expect that the owner still has a relationship with Renyi Bofu. ”

Xia Zongping traveled south and north, and he has also seen a lot of the world, but the status of the businessman in this dynasty is low, and he really has no chance to meet a few dignitaries.

Zhu Youning was able to talk to Bofu, which obviously exceeded Xia Zongping's expectations.

Zhu Youning smiled and said: "My uncle and I had a friendship in the early years, and the name of Renyi Uncle must have been heard by the big shopkeeper, and we had a few encounters with the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce in the early years. ”

The great name of the benevolent and righteous uncle, how can anyone who walks in business not know.

Xia Zongping nodded, his heart turned a thousand times, and he waited quietly eating tea on his face.

Half an hour passed in a flash, and before Yan Sui came out, Zhu Youning frowned slightly.

During the period, there were a few people who came to give gifts, and Steward Liang said: "Uncle has guests now, it is inconvenient to come out, please wait for a while." ”

Some people put down the salute and the gift list and said goodbye first, and some sat in the side hall to wait with Zhu Youning.

In this way, it was another half an hour. Those who came after have already taken their leave. Zhu Youning sat impatiently.

What kind of guests is Yan Sui going to?

Although she and Yan Sui have not had the opportunity to meet over the years, they have always maintained correspondence, and their psychology is quite familiar. Zhu Youning has always felt that she and Yan Sui are good friends, and she has the same views on some things, and she also admires Yan Sui's cleverness and methods.

Unexpectedly, Yan Sui actually hung her, which made Zhu Youning a little depressed.

And Xia Zongping on the side also tasted some flavors.

The owner shouldn't be shy to get close, right?