Seeing that Bai was willing to be close to Zhu Youning, and Zhu Youning treated Bai as before, Zhu Huating was very satisfied. If the family has to live behind closed doors, what's the fun of living that day?

Zhu Huating was happy, drank two glasses in the evening, stood in the courtyard and recited several poems against the dark clouds in the sky, and pulled Sixteen to recite them with him.

Zhu Youning watched Zhu Huating's elegant drunkenness under the corridor, and watched happily for a long time before going back to rest.

The next day, he went to Luo Xun's place to study, and successfully completed the task at noon.

Luo Xun looked at the dictation handed in by Zhu Youning, and asked a few questions casually, and Zhu Youning could answer them fluently.

"You girl, now it seems that you finally look a little bit like you, although your qualifications are a little worse, and you are a little stupid, but in the end you are a girl, and my old man doesn't ask you so much."

"Yes."

"In the future, you will be silent, I will also take the time to tell you some, you can understand or not, you don't even come to ask, I am old, very lazy, I don't bother to say anything a second time."

Zhu Youning couldn't help but feel funny when he saw Luo Lao's awkward appearance.

This old man has always said good things and never said them well, and he never makes superfluous explanations.

Just like the punishment at the beginning, she wrote silently over and over again, and if she didn't see the words, she would have just thrown them away and didn't look at them, if she hadn't persevered and seen the results and made progress from them, she would never have understood Luo Lao's hard work.

"That's what the teacher said." Zhu Youning nodded with a smile.

Luo Xun stroked his beard and smiled with satisfaction when he heard this, and suddenly felt that something was wrong: "My old man said that he was lazy, that is self-humility, and you dare to say that I am right?" ”

Zhu Youning said with a smile: "The teacher learns to be rich in five cars, the car is too heavy, and it is appropriate to take a break occasionally." ”

Luo Xun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed, and patted Zhu Youning's head with his big hand like dry bark, and said, "Didn't you say that you still have any business to discuss?" Why don't you go soon? Do you still want to stay for dinner? ”

"That's a good dare, we both happen to eat easy to chew and restrain it, why don't you treat me to a meal?" Zhu Youning pursed his lips and smiled.

Luo Xun was old, his mouth was full of teeth and looked neat, in fact, half of them were dentures, seeing Zhu Youning pursed his lips and laughed out of two small dimples, remembering that she was changing her teeth, he was not only not angry, but felt funny, patted Zhu Youning's shoulder and laughed heartily.

"Okay, please eat, please eat. You're on your way to your business. lest you go out and tell people that I, the master, will not be willing to give you a bite of food. ”

Zhu Youning smiled and thanked him, and Lai was here to accompany Luo Xun for lunch.

In fact, she also had to eat when she made an appointment with Yan Sui, but Luo Lao had no children and grandchildren, and there was a little servant by his side, which was really lonely.

She usually accompanies Luo Lao to lunch, although she is punished most of the time, Luo Lao eats and watches her, but she is also accompanied by someone like that. If she leaves, Luo Lao will only be alone, and she can't rest assured.

After lunch, Luo Lao said that he wanted a lunch break and urged her to go out.

"Hurry up, hurry up, let's go, I'm out of school, I don't want to leave, you want to exhaust my old man!"

Zhu Youning smiled and joked with him a few more times before bowing and retreating.

Seeing Zhu Youning walking away, Luo Lao smiled and lay down on the leisure chair, and sang a few words of drama with his eyes closed.

Zhu Youning had just walked to the front when he saw Zhu Yanfeng, Zhu Yanlan, Zhu Yanpeng, and Zhu Yanping gathering together to discuss something.

Zhu Youning didn't want to go past them first, so he only got to come close to greet them.

Several people returned the salute.

Zhu Yanping said: "Ninth sister, have you heard, someone lost the business of the imperial businessman!" ”

Zhu Youning said in surprise: "How come? Will the royal family still fail to pay their debts? ”

Zhu Yanfeng frowned and said: "My father ordered the goods early this morning and prepared to deliver them, and I heard from a friend that several people in Hangzhou City who had taken over the business of the imperial merchants handed over the goods, and the payment for the goods on the spot was half of the silver and half of the treasure money. The same may be true for our goods. ”

Zhu Yanpeng twisted his eyebrows and said, "Who wants treasure money this year." What is the difference between treasure money and waste paper. ”

"That's right. Isn't that the same as robbing? ”

……

Zhu Youning frowned when he heard this.

Because of the rarity and easy wear of coins and gold and silver, in fact, the Great Zhou Dynasty had treasure banknotes in circulation as early as the beginning of the founding of the country, but because of the improper use of treasure banknotes by the imperial court, one was printed casually, and the other was only issued and not collected, and all that was required when collecting taxes was real money, silver or grain, resulting in a serious depreciation of treasure banknotes. Treasure money of the same denomination cannot buy anything that can be bought with the same value of silver.

Therefore, half of the reward given by the saint to the imperial merchant is treasure money, which is definitely bullying people with power.

However, Zhu Youning felt that in fact, the election of the imperial merchant itself had brought huge benefits to the Zhu family, but the value was higher than the payment itself.

Zhu Yanfeng saw that Zhu Youning had not spoken and refused to express his opinion, so he couldn't help but condensed his eyebrows and asked, "Ninth sister, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Youning blinked his long eyelashes and said ignorantly: "I think? I don't dare to talk nonsense. Anyway, we have no other way but to listen to the arrangement from above. ”

Zhu Yanfeng glanced at Zhu Youning twice, and felt that what she said was not true, but it was not easy to ask.

Zhu Youning said goodbye to several cousins, and then took a car to Changqing Building.

She had already booked a box on the second floor in advance, and not long after Zhu Youning arrived at the box, Yan Sui came with Steward Yan.

The two saluted each other, and Yan Sui smiled and said, "Jiuhou Jiuhou, I'm late." ”

Zhu Youning said with a smile: "It's because I left school early, and I don't have anything else to do when I'm idle, so I came a little early, and Yan Gongzi is not too late." "In fact, Yan Sui's arrival time was one stick of incense earlier than the appointment.

After the two of them sat down, Zhu Youning stood up and poured a bowl of tea for Yan Sui, offered it with both hands, and said, "Thanks to Yan Gongzi's help this time, my family can save the day." Count it, Yan Gongzi has already saved me twice. ”

Yan Sui also took the tea bowl with both hands, and politely invited Zhu Youning to sit down, and then said: "It's Miss Zhu who is decent, but in fact, I didn't help at all." This time I was able to solve this matter, mainly relying on Miss Zhu's means. ”

"If you hadn't told me in advance, I wouldn't have that much time to think, where would I have thought of a way?"

"Not necessarily." Yan Sui took a sip of tea, "After you and I met that day, Miss Zhu did not immediately warn the Zhu family, but waited and watched the changes. Therefore, Ms. Zhu was able to think of a solution to the problem, not the result of careful consideration, but an improvisation after the incident. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Sui said solemnly: "Miss Zhu is quite anxious and wise, which impresses her with admiration. ”