Chapter 164~165: The Righteousness of Friends
"Don't be nervous, I don't mean anything else." Yan Suiwan'er leaned forward a little closer, supported it with one hand, and looked at Zhu Youning inquiringly.
"I just wonder, why are you telling me this? Aren't you from the Zhu family? According to what you do today, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain to your old lady when I go home, right? ”
Seeing him like this, Zhu Youning couldn't help but sigh: "Morally, I don't agree with their approach, but for myself, this is out of the righteousness of friends." You have saved my life, and if I know that someone wants to harm you but I keep quiet, I will not be able to live with my conscience. I can't talk to you in detail, but I just remind you that with Yan Gongzi's cleverness, I should be able to analyze a rough idea, so I am worthy of it. ”
Zhu Youning stood up after saying that: "What should be said today has been explained, and I should also leave." I also hope that Yan Gongzi can take my words to heart, even if he can't believe me immediately, so he should pay more attention and go back to check it. It doesn't hurt for you to be cautious. ”
"Don't be in a hurry, you're not done yet. You sit down first. Yan Sui couldn't help laughing and stood up to stay.
Zhu Youning looked at him suspiciously.
Yan Sui made a gesture of invitation, took the lead in sitting back in his original position, and said, "You haven't answered me yet, you came today to find out, right?" Now not only did you not find the information you wanted, but you also handed over the bottom of your side, how can you go back and pay the difference? ”
"Although it may not be easy to go back, who made me young, and it is understandable that I am too clumsy."
Zhu Youning sat down again and said frankly, "They pinned their hopes on me, I'm afraid there is no other way, and it is up to me to say whatever they say when they go back." In the end, he jokingly said, "Unless Yan Gongzi turns around and goes to tell me the secret."
"Where?" Yan Sui looked at Zhu Youning with a smile on his face, the exploration in his eyes turned into interest, and he muttered, "That's ......."
When Zhu Youning saw him like this, he knew that he had something to say, so he was not in a hurry to leave, so he picked up the tea bowl and took a bite.
Yan Sui lowered her eyes, rubbed her chin with one hand and pondered, "This will be a difficult thing to do." ”
"Why did Yan Gongzi say this?"
Yan Sui raised his head, looked at Zhu Youning with a hesitant look on his face, thought about it for a while, and then sighed deeply.
"Well, I'll tell you."
Seeing this, Zhu Youning couldn't help but sit up straight.
Yan Sui said: "Since you have the righteousness of a friend to me, then I should also have the righteousness of a friend to you." If you are willing to tell me the truth bluntly, then I can no longer hide the truth from you. ”
This sentence was too awkward, but Zhu Youning, who was nervous, immediately grasped the key to it.
Yan Sui may have other inside stories in the matter of Zhen Niang?
Yan Sui straightened his expression and said seriously: "I was younger than you, so I came out to work alone, and it can be said that everything I have now is something I have from scratch over the years." Do you think that someone like me is the kind of person who makes low-level mistakes?
"How could I possibly watch a temporary backlash from a merchant with whom I had made an appointment? How could Wang Sanniang be allowed to be directly controlled by the Cheng family?
"The most important thing, do you think that the embroidery method of the Wang family's knitting needles will really be on the order in the palace? Does the master in the palace really like this embroidery method? ”
Zhu Youning's cat-like eyes were round, and he said in surprise: "But...... Could it be that the Zhu family got the wrong news? ”
Yan Sui continued: "After the Imperial Merchants Conference, the eldest lady of the Cheng family took the initiative to find me, saying that she would spread some rumors outside, as long as I promised not to jump out to refute her rumors, then she would give me very big benefits, including some profits from their family in the salt industry. ”
Zhu Youning was stunned.
"It turned out that the Cheng family did it? The Cheng family spread rumors and asked you to cooperate with huge profits, did they just deliberately want to harm the Zhu family? However, the Zhu family and the Cheng family have always used well water to avoid river water. The Cheng family can't do this at all. What are they trying to do? ”
"I don't know."
Yan Sui leisurely took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and said, "Anyway, I came to Fuyang at the behest of the Cheng family." They let me live in Fuyang for half a month without having to do anything. I'll be able to retire with my work. I don't know exactly what they did. ”
Saying that, he suddenly smiled gently at Zhu Youning, and said: "This is the truth I know, as for the rest, I believe that with your mind, you should be able to think clearly, I can only help you get here." ”
Zhu Youning's mind was already confused, so he could only go through all the conversations in his head, and planned to go back and think about it again.
"Young Master Yan, thank you for telling the truth today." Zhu Youning got up and saluted.
Yan Sui also stood up and said politely: "You're welcome, this is also because you are willing to tell the truth, I will tell you." ”
Zhu Youning couldn't help laughing, and the two small dimples on his cheeks looked very cute.
"If I lied to you from the beginning, wouldn't you be honest with me?"
"So, here's the benefit you deserve." Yan Sui smiled gently.
Zhu Youning and Yan Sui said goodbye again.
This time, Yan Sui did not force him to stay, and took the initiative to send Zhu Youning ashore.
The light rain was soft and lingering, Yan Sui held a wide paper umbrella, tilted the handle of the umbrella, and covered most of the rain for Zhu Youning, but half of his robe was drenched.
Zhu Youning thanked him gratefully, got into the carriage when he came, and when he sat down, he lifted the window screen and said to Yan Sui who was standing next to the willows: "Thank you for your help, I have written down this favor, and he will repay it in the future." ”
Yan Sui smiled, "You don't have to be so polite, Miss Zhu is a person of temperament, and it just so happens that Yan still has a conscience." It's not that I've helped you today, it's your own choices that have helped you, and I haven't done anything. ”
"Having said that, I still have to thank you, I'll come back to you another day."
Yan Sui said seriously: "That's good." As long as I am still in Fuyang, I will not refuse your invitation. ”
Seeing that he had such a solemn expression on his handsome face, Zhu Youning couldn't help but laugh again, and after saying goodbye to him, he called the coachman and the maidservant who were standing far away, and ordered him to leave for home.
The sound of the rain rustled, and the sound of the wheel turning became fainter and fainter as the carriage got farther and farther away, until there was no figure in sight, and Yan Sui returned to the painting boat.
Steward Yan was already standing on the edge of the boat with an umbrella, "Childe, wouldn't it be bad for you to make such a decision today?" ”
"What's the difference?" Yan Sui stood at the bow of the boat with an umbrella, looked at the increasingly heavy fog on the Fuyang River, and said slowly: "Although it is said that the shopping mall is like a battlefield, not everyone in the bureau has to be dyed black. For someone like the Zhu family to be able to get out of the mud without staining such a cute little flower, I feel reluctant to let her down. ”
Steward Yan looked at Yan Sui's back in amazement, and after thinking about the language for a long time, he said: "Childe, Miss Zhu is only eight years old, and when she reaches marriageable age, your son will probably be able to run all over the ground." ”
"Where do you think of it?" Yan Sui said with a smile: "I like her, that's because she is really a very interesting little girl, with her age, being able to have such a mind and mind makes me very curious." But I'm not tempted by a child, am I? ”
Steward Yan smiled awkwardly: "Yes, I think too much." The main reason is that Childe has never been so special to any girl. ”
"Is there one? I'm just a courtesy, and I told her the truth, which isn't special. Yan Sui walked to the cabin disapprenosingly.
Steward Yan followed behind and said, "You don't think you think about it." ”
Yan Sui raised her eyebrows and thought about it, and couldn't help but say funny: "Even if she is special, it is because she is indeed a special child." ”
The two entered the house, and Yan Sui sat at Fang Cai's Eight Immortals table and ate a few sips of tea before saying, "I just don't know, whether she believes or doesn't believe what I said." ”
Steward Yan said: "Yes, in fact, what she said to you at the beginning, I was also skeptical after listening to it, and I didn't believe it completely, but I didn't expect that Gongzi would trust Miss Zhu so much." ”
"I have doubts, too. However, intuitively, I think that people with her temperament should not look down on the Zhu family's practices, so all kinds of dirty arrangements should be true. ”
"Childe has an accurate eye, and the development in the mall over the years is enough to prove your judgment."
When Yan Sui heard this, she just smiled faintly and took a few sips of tea before saying, "I can't wait to see what she will do now." It's like we may not believe everything she says, and she may not believe everything I say, but depending on how much she believes, or if she doesn't believe it at all, then I can't do it. ”
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Zhu Youning sat in the narrow carriage and pursed his lips without saying a word.
Bai Ling and Thrush sat opposite each other by the car door, and because of Zhu Youning's solemn expression, the two did not dare to say a word so as not to disturb Zhu Youning's thinking.
Zhu Youning is indeed thinking about the credibility of his words now, as Yan Sui guessed.
Her friendship with Yan Sui is actually not deep.
If it were Li Tuobei, she would 100% believe that Li Tuobei's character would not harm her. But she didn't dare to fully believe Yan Sui.
She can only judge from Yan Sui's current achievements, Yan Sui must be a thoughtful and skillful businessman.
If it is really as Fang Cai Yansui said, he came out alone to do business at a younger age than her. Until now, he is only a young man who has not reached the weak crown, and he has been able to create a commercial kingdom on his own over the years, and Yan Sui's talent should indeed not be underestimated.
She has a lifetime of memories and still has to live on thin ice, always wondering if her mind is enough, and whether she will be killed by someone the next moment.
And Yan Sui, a pure ancient person who was born and raised, has such a great ability, his mind and mind are extraordinary.
So Zhu Youning is very worried now, he is not Yan Sui's opponent, could this be another method of Yan Sui, is what he said another trap?
And the hardest thing to do now is how to reply when you go back?
To tell the truth, tell Old Lady Zhu what Yan Sui said today?
Judging from Zhu Youning's superficial understanding of Mrs. Zhu, when she said this, Mrs. Zhu not only wouldn't believe it, but would also think that she was prevaricating in every way, and after she went back, she wanted to prevaricate by giving an explanation.
- After all, she did show her rejection of this matter in front of Old Lady Zhu before.
But if you don't say it, what if Yan Sui's words are true?
What if the Zhu family will fall in love with the Cheng family because of this?
In fact, Zhu Youning is willing to believe Yan Sui in his heart.
Zhu Youning has always been accustomed to preparing for the worst before doing things.
For her, the Zhu family is an enemy, and it has nothing to do with her whether the Zhu family loses money or not, and even she has an ideal in her heart, that is, one day she will become strong and overthrow the perverted family rules of the Zhu family.
So in this matter, she doesn't care how the Cheng family deals with the Zhu family, but what she cares about is whether Yan Sui will lie to him after she treats each other with sincerity and sincerely makes Yan Sui a friend.
And the worst outcome of this matter is not that the Zhu family was plotted.
It was Yan Sui who deceived her.
If Yan Suiyu deceived her, no matter what happened to the Zhu family, she would lose a friend.
The most important thing is that Zhu Youning can't figure out how the Cheng family arranged this now, and where they dug the pit!
Obviously, the Cheng family made a trap with Yan Sui and waited for the Zhu family to drill it.
But Zhu Youning couldn't understand how the Cheng family planned to harm the Zhu family.
Obviously, the Zhu family intends to open his mouth, and the other party will definitely foresee it.
However, neither the Cheng family nor Yan Sui can be sure whether the Zhu family chooses to help Yan Sui or choose to side with the Cheng family.
In other words, the design of the Cheng family is that no matter how the Zhu family chooses, they will be hooked.
The question is, how did they get the Zhu family to take the bait?
When she couldn't figure it out herself, Zhu Youning didn't dare to tell the truth to Old Lady Zhu rashly.
Even if she said it, Old Lady Zhu would not only not believe it, but would also blame her. When the time comes, the impact on her will not be small.
After all, she's not strong enough right now. It is not enough to resist the Zhu family's suppression of her.
Zhu Youning struggled all the way, and when he heard Bai Ling's call, he realized that the carriage had stopped in front of Zhu's house.
Zhu Youning went to see Mrs. Zhu.
"Grandfather and granddaughter have done their best. However, Yan Gongzi was too shrewd, and he refused to say much about what he wanted to do when he came to Fuyang this time, and told me about the famous mountains and rivers and delicacies from all over the world, but he didn't say the purpose of his coming to Fuyang. I couldn't do it, and I couldn't ask too directly, and I was afraid that it would ruin your business, so I had to talk to him for a while and come back. ”
Old lady Zhu frowned, and some suspected that Zhu Youning was deliberately prevaricating.
But after thinking about it, Yan Sui can get three kinds of business in the imperial merchants at a young age, and it is not easy to talk and speak, Zhu Youning is only eight years old, and he has not been in school for a few days, and what he did is also because of Zhu Huating's behind-the-scenes support, and he is relieved.
"That's it. Since there is no result. Then you don't have to worry too much. Anyway, Yan Sui is definitely going to find Zhen Niang, let's wait and see what happens. ”
When Zhu Youning heard this, the corners of his lips moved, and he still swallowed his words.
Instead of saying things to disgust Old Lady Zhu, it is better for her to pay more attention to her own observations, so as to seize the opportunity at any time.