The afternoon sun is very warm, soft and small bag two, running and jumping in the yard behind Yugui, followed by the little girl and the little girl to play, very lively.

Cui'er sat on a chair on the steps of the main house, holding a cup of brightly colored flower and fruit tea in her hand, squinting slightly in the sun, enjoying this rare quiet time in the afternoon.

Cui'er's flower tea has finally achieved phased results, and Cui'er, who has been busy, is enjoying a good time, looking at the bright smiling faces of the children in the yard, and the smile on the corner of Cui'er's lips is gradually blooming.

Lian Qingshan has been on the expedition for more than half a month, and in the past half a month, Cui'er has been numbing herself with busyness every day, for fear that when she is idle occasionally, she will cry uncontrollably when she thinks of Lian Qingshan who is out on the expedition.

In the past half a month, Cui'er asked Shopkeeper Liu to make another hundred bottles of gold sore medicine, and sent someone to send them out quickly. In the past half a month, Cui'er wrote more than a dozen letters to Lian Qingshan in the dead of night, but none of them were sent, only when she was delivering medicine, she carried a thin letter with few words.

"Cui'er, sit inside, you've been in the sun for a while, be careful to get a tan." Mrs. Ye has been worried about her daughter, and she didn't feel anything when she saw her smile just now, but when she saw Cui'er's face gradually showing a little lonely, she felt distressed, and hurriedly walked out of the house and said to Cui'er.

"Okay, mother, I just want to make a gown for Qingshan, mother, you can help me see what color to choose." As soon as Cui'er looked up, she saw her mother's slightly worried look. I knew that my face was not good just now. Cui'er reached out and patted her face, slapping the stiff expression just now, and relaxing the tense muscles. Only then did he take Mrs. Ye into the house with a smile.

Mrs. Ye looked at Cui'er's forced smile, and was very distressed, but she also knew that this was her daughter's filial piety, so she also relaxed her mood, and followed Cui'er's train of thought to help her look at the material.

At this time, Lian Qingshan escorted grain and grass all the way to the northwest. Along the way, the roadside ranges from lush to loess. It's just a dozen days. Looking at the endless loess hills in front of him, pinching the talisman jade that Cui'er specially asked for him, Lian Qingshan knew that he was closer to the northwest.

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"Kuroki, come and rub this tea leaf!"

"Charcoal. You take the sand and sift the tea that has been sifted over there, and then add the flowers again. ”

Cui'er was dressed in cotton cloth and wrapped in a headscarf of the same color around her head, and while making tea in the Xiangming Garden, she also had to direct the apprentices to work, which was extremely busy.

"Cui'er, Cui'er......" At this time, Master Ye suddenly walked in from outside the Xiangming Garden, walking like flying. Holding a roll of paper with ink in his hand, he felt like his eyebrows were about to fly.

"Daddy, what's so happy?" Cui'er looked at her father as she walked over. With a happy face, you know that something good must have happened. She put down the tea green that was turning in her hand, wiped her hands with her apron, walked to her father, and asked with a smile.

Master Ye smiled and said nothing, with a guessing expression on his face, which did not have the majesty of his usual appearance at all. Like an old urchin. Looking at this look in Cui'er's eyes, she knew that her father was really happy. I can't even take care of the depth and stability that I pay most attention to on weekdays.

"Dad, say it quickly, don't sell it!" Cui'er saw the appearance of her father, and her heart was originally only three points of curiosity, but she was fully raised to seven points, looking at the paper in her father's hand, she intuitively felt that it was related to this paper, so she stretched out her hand to get it.

"Hey, don't tear it!" Master Ye saw that Cui'er had found the right point at once, and hurriedly lifted the paper in his hand, and said with a look of pity.

"What the hell is it...... Cui'er raised an eyebrow and said amusedly as she looked at her father.

"But it's a good thing, it took us half a month to find out, the tea merchants who are going to participate in the selection of imperial merchants this year!" Before Master Ye could speak, a voice came from the door of Xiangming Garden, and the person who came was none other than Cui'er's eldest brother Ye Qing.

"Big brother, what you said is true?" When Cui'er heard this, she hurriedly left her own father who had attempted to sell Guanzi, and rushed to her brother's side with three steps and two steps.

"Naturally it's true, I went out with your second brother to inquire for a long time, and this can be regarded as a similar touch of the situation." Ye Qing's face was expressionless, but the eyes that looked at Cui'er were very gentle. After saying this, he looked unhappy when his father was leaked his secret, and winked at Cui'er gently, thinking that this matter was very interesting.

"Oh, that's ...... so" Cui'er deliberately lengthened her voice, looked at her father and said, "Knowing ourselves and knowing that we will win all battles, this is what Daddy taught us!" ”

"That's it!" The secret was leaked by his poker-faced eldest son, but Master Ye sighed but there was nothing he could do, just glared at his son, he heard his daughter's words, and an old face bloomed happily, "It's still Cui'er who has insight and knows the benefits of her father!" ”

Cui'er pursed her lips and smiled without speaking, her father was quite normal most of the time, but sometimes he would look like a child, making people laugh tightly.

"Alright, let's go to the study in the front yard." Ye Qing looked at his father helplessly, then pulled the corners of his mouth at Cui'er, and said gently.

After arriving at the study, the little girl with the organic spirit served tea, and Cui'er and her father and brother sat in front of the bookcase, spread out the roll of paper, and listened to Ye Qing talk carefully about the things she had heard in recent days.

"In this year's imperial business selection, there are many people who want to participate, but I see that there are no more than ten companies that have the ability to compete with us." Ye Qing was the first to speak, but he didn't look at the paper on the table during the period, obviously remembering this matter in his heart.

"The number one competitor selected by the imperial merchants is the last imperial merchants, and they follow the path of Zheng Guogong. The current imperial merchant is surnamed Qian. There is some past with our money shopkeeper, this money surname is Huangshang, and it is the home of the Qian family where the money shopkeeper is located. Zheng Guogong was old and strong ten years ago. It's very tough, but now it's not as good as it used to be. Ye Qing talked about the current Qian Huangshang in detail, focusing on two points, one is the current situation of the Qian family, and the other is the backer of the Qian family.

This Qian family is a well-known big merchant in the capital, originally married a girl to Zheng Guogong's mansion to the old Zheng Guogong as a concubine, and later the concubine's position continued to rise. The Qian family has also risen with the tide. The last two generations of the Qian family really have two very good business skills, and Zheng Guogong's power is the backer. This business is getting bigger and bigger, and it has been very prosperous for decades.

"This Zheng Guogong, isn't it the one that my father once said, who saved General Yang?" Cui'er heard this. Remembering a piece of the past, his brows furrowed slightly.

If this Zheng Guogong is the one who saved General Wude, then he is also the benefactor of the Dingguo Mansion, with the face of the Zheng Guogong Mansion, Rao is close relationship with the Dingguo Mansion, but he may not be able to rely on the big tree of the Dingguo Mansion, and compete for the position of the imperial businessman.

"No, at the beginning, General Wude and Brother Xing, Brother Qu, what they said were General Wenxiu who rode thousands of miles to save General Wude. didn't have anything to do with Zheng Guogong, but looked disdainful...... Is there something going on here? Cui'er suddenly remembered another thing, pursed her lips and frowned and muttered to herself.

"There's something going on here! Although I didn't find out what was going on. But one thing is certain...... Ye Qing leaned his head in front of Master Ye and Cui'er, and said mysteriously, "This Zheng Guogong doesn't know what happened, he was ordered by the emperor to stay at home and think about it behind closed doors, I bought the people who bought them in the house, and said that these days are very tight." It didn't take two or three years, but it couldn't come back. ”

Ye Qing's meaning when he said this was very obvious. This Zheng Guogong was ordered by the emperor to think about it behind closed doors at home, so he naturally lost his sacred heart. If the grandfather of the country who has lost the sacred heart has no real power, who will give him face when the emperor is selected?

If Zheng Guogong had no face when he was selected by the imperial merchants, or his face was not as big as that of Dingguo Gong, then the probability of the Qian family being selected would be much smaller, which is why Master Ye was so happy. Ten years ago, he was crushed by the Qian family without any suspense, and he had the opportunity to make a comeback ten years later, what could be happier than this!

"In addition to this Qian family, there are three famous big merchants, one of which is a native of the capital, surnamed Wang, who specializes in pounding tea. Two tea merchants in Huxi, one of them is Uncle Zhao's family, who has a close relationship with our family, and the other is ......" Ye Qing gritted his teeth and glanced at Cui'er lightly, but did not continue.

"Whose house is the other one?" Cui'er looked at her brother's appearance, and her heart shook suddenly, and she knew the result in an instant, "It's the Jin family where Jin Yuman is, right?" ”

"Well, it's their house." Ye Qing nodded, there was still no expression on his face, but the worry in his eyes couldn't be hidden.

"Big brother, I'm fine." Cui'er looked at her brother's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, and knew that he was thinking too much, "I'm thinking about how to let Qingshan come back well, how to get the imperial merchant in my hands, what gold and jade are full of silver and jade, I don't care about it for a long time." Cui'er said with a smile, because she was afraid that her father and brother would worry, the smile on Cui'er's face was very bright, but she didn't know that this was too much, which made Master Ye and Ye Qing even more disgusted with Jin Yuman.

"I heard that this Jin family is surnamed Xiao, is this true?" Cui'er looked at her father and brother, knowing that she wouldn't be able to turn their mood around for a while, so she simply continued the topic.

"Well, this Jin family gave silver to the surnamed Xiao, and then the local Wang family in the capital seems to have found an old man to support him. Uncle Zhao seems to have just known that we have entered Beijing and are going to participate in the selection, and he didn't say where he got to, but it seems that it is more likely to be close to our family or the Jin family, after all, he doesn't have any foundation in Beijing......"

The father and daughter discussed these big tea merchants in the study for a long time, and also studied a few small tea merchants with more than enough potential and confidence. Although these small tea merchants are not enough to be their own competitors, they also have some value, and they need to see if they need to be drawn together and become allies.

"By the way, Daddy, Cui'er, the teahouse next to Yefu has almost been cleaned up, when will we open?" After the discussion, Ye Qing suddenly asked.

"This ...... When is the nearest auspicious day, and it's ready to open directly! Master Ye lowered his eyes and pondered for a long time, and said. (To be continued)

ps: Thank you for the two pink tickets of the pro * lazy * ~