"The location of Guizifang is good, if the girl doesn't plan to operate it for the time being, it is better to let it out and collect rent."

Luo Sheng looked at Xie Wan, who was sitting behind the bookcase and playing with the two pecans in his hand, and said. This basket of pecans was brought over by Wang Anmei during the day, and when he took it back to his house just now, he remembered the shop in Guizifang halfway through, so he took this opportunity to mention it by the way.

The two shops in Qingyuan Prefecture are Yang's dowry, and the original tenants have moved out in early September, Luo Sheng thought that Xie Wan would operate as quickly as the previous two shops, but he didn't expect that nearly two months had passed, and there was still no movement.

Xie Wan rolled around on the table with walnuts, and played for a long time without making a sound. Luo Sheng was only about to get up and go out when she was childish, but she opened her mouth at this time: "That shop, what else can you do besides making silk?" ”

Luo Sheng paused, "What does that girl want to do?" ”

She muttered, "What do you think of opening a rice shop?" ”

"Open a rice shop?" Luo Sheng's voice was high-pitched and weird, as if he had heard something incredible.

Luo Ju coughed from the side. Luo Sheng came back to his senses and saw Xie Wan's serious face, it didn't seem like he was joking at all, so he finally regained some consciousness and asked, "The girl wants to open a rice shop and sell grain from the south to the north?" ”

Xie Wan hummed and said: "These days, I am thinking, the climate in the north is dry and the winter is long, coupled with the increase of nobles in Beijing, the increase in garden construction, and the transformation of many farmlands with mulberry and fruit trees. Therefore, opening a rice shop should be more profitable than the silk business. ”

Of course. This thought is mainly because she remembers the fourth year of Qingping, that is, next year. In February, the DPRK and China issued an important edict to expand the surrounding area of Beijing as a windbreak. Although this will has no direct impact on what Xie Wan wants to do. However, if the windbreak is expanded, there will be less fertile land, so it is definitely profitable to open a rice shop.

Luo Sheng was stunned for a long time, and said abruptly: "Although the profit is big, the risk and investment are also big. There is also a mortgage on the goods, Cao Yun is a common path for grain transportation in the north and south, not to mention that our second room has never been in contact with the people who have been transported, and the people in the Cao Gang are not so easy to deal with. ”

He really wanted to say that this little girl was getting bolder and bolder by them. Others didn't dare to wade into the water easily, but she actually thought about it. This Cao gang is allowed by the imperial court to say it nicely, but in fact it is a gang of gangsters, and their gang is so big and its water is so deep that ordinary people can't imagine it.

"I know." Regarding his concerns, Xie Wan behaved relatively calmly, "I've thought about all of this, the main river of Caoyun is to Beijing." The internal transport can be carried to Hejian Province. But what I'm missing right now is someone who pulls the strings. ”

She had also seen the people at the Cao Gang Wharf in Jingshi, and all of them knew martial arts and acted quickly, but they were not comparable to these nurses at home who could make a few moves of sticks. Not only do they look down on some low-ranking officials. It is even more difficult for ordinary literati to enter their eyes. So if you want to connect with them, you can only find a person in their path, or say. It's the same mixed up with the rivers and lakes.

Jianghu people have their own rules. Although there are many people practicing martial arts in Baoding and Baoding, she is a boudoir woman. Even if you meet them in person, you can't get acquainted with them. They are not Wang Anmei, who can achieve their goals with a little trickery.

"Then let's sell silk first. I'll talk about it when I think about it. ”

She tossed the walnuts into the basket and waved her hand.

With her words, Luo Sheng was really relieved. He knew her temperament too well, but he was really afraid that she would have to deal with those hooligans at this time. Although it may not be that she is dead hearted, but take one step at a time, and talk about the future later!

The silk shop of Guizifang opened on the first day of the winter month.

Because it was not far from the state government, Qi Song also took his colleagues to put firecrackers. Xie Lang made his first official public appearance as a big proprietor, and he gracefully entertained the guests who came to congratulate him, and distributed melons and fruits and betel nuts to the neighbors who watched the congratulation.

And the big shopkeeper Dou Hu was also recommended by Qi Song, who had worked as the shopkeeper of another silk shop in the state for more than ten years. The guy was looking for it locally, Xie Wan saw it in person, but he was also smart, he saw Xie Lang coming over, serving tea and pouring water diligently, and saw that he was still holding Xie Wan in his hand, and he also carried candy for her with a smile on his face.

As long as the shopkeeper does things steadily, the people below are not afraid of him.

In addition to helping Xie Wan with personal affairs every day, Luo Ju also has to collect accounts in five shops at the end of each month. Luo Sheng was very happy to see that he was reused by Xie Wan as soon as he came, on the one hand, he was very happy, but on the other hand, he was worried that he would not be able to handle things well, so when he saw him back, he had to mention it vigorously.

After a year's training, Shen Tian was not only clever but also a little more calm, and Xie Wan began to let him follow the shopkeeper Zhang to buy.

Luo Yi is still honest and honest, he hasn't learned anything from his lip service, but his brain has been trained a little. Xie Wan asked Luo Sheng to teach him literacy and bookkeeping.

Wang Anmei's side was going well, and when Luo Sheng brought another little flower cat, Xie Wan decided to see her. She asked Luo Sheng to make an appointment for her to come to Lizi Hutong on the ninth day of the first month.

Wang Anmei arrived as promised. In the attic, I saw Xie Wan ascending the stairs steadily, with a ruddy face and folded hands under his abdomen, revealing a little joy and a little nervousness.

Xie Wan took the two clothes that Yu Xue had folded in his hand and told all of them to go down. Then he smiled and said to Wang Anmei: "I asked my sister to sew two new clothes, and my sister came to try to see if it fits." ”

She pushed the clothes over, unfolded them and saw that they were a set of embroidered skirts with fine stitches, the texture of the clothes was smoky-colored soft Hangzhou silk, and the skirt was a pale yellow Yuehua skirt, all with pearl silk clips, which was suitable for wearing at this time.

Wang Anmei blushed and said, "How can I afford this gift from my sister?" It's too precious. I'm just here to meet you. ”

Xie Wan insisted on persuasion, and she obeyed.

She turned her back and took off her coat, revealing two scarlet scars on the back of her neck.

Xie Wan rushed up with a sigh, caressing the scar and opening his eyes wide. Asked her, "Sister, what's wrong with you?" ”

Wang Anmei's face flushed, and she turned around in a panic and avoided behind the bookcase.

Xie Wan stared at her steadily. Gradually, tears began to flow from her eyes.

"Sister......

Wang Anmei also cried.

She never said these things in front of her. Because I don't want her to know how big the gap is between her and her. Xie Wan's gaze in front of her pierced her heart like a knife, and her tears were like two hands, pushing down the last layer of protection in her heart.

She put on her clothes and rushed up the stairs. Xie Wan held her back. Finally, the two of them fell to the ground, crying in a heap.

I don't know how long it took, but I finally got tired of crying.

Xie Wan wiped away his tears and said, "I heard a little about my sister, so I said that I sympathize with my sister." What happened to my sister is already very pitiful, if my sister doesn't tell me all these things today. I'm not going to let you go. ”

When Wang Anmei heard this, she lay on the coffee table and cried for a while before she gradually stopped.

"Why did you come near me when you knew I was an ominous person?"

Xie Wan took her hand and said softly, "Why did my sister say that?" What is ominous is not something you want to do. Tell me, what did your cousin do to you? Was he the one who hit the wound? ”

Wang Anmei bit her lip and wept, looked at the mullions and was silent for a moment before she said slowly: "This is nothing." After seeing a doctor when I was eight years old and broke my thigh. He either beat or scolded me, and at first I didn't know, I just thought that I had done something wrong. But then I found out that no matter how careful and obedient I was. He still scolded me.

"I also suspected that he blamed me for not being a boy, but I found that he was not like this to Sister Si. Although he didn't necessarily like Sister Si'er much, he never hit her. I'll just ask my mother. My mother said, said I ...... That's when I found out. I am an ominous man in their eyes, and he hates me for this.

"Actually, it's not just him. Including my grandfather and grandmother, my second uncle and aunt, and everyone in the family never had a good look at me in private. My mother is the only one who cares about me. I've been looking for death since I was eight years old, and my mother noticed it and said that if I die, she will follow me to die, and I won't dare.

"Over the years, he has always wanted me to disappear from the Wang family, and I have seen a wolf-like look in his eyes several times, and I know that he especially wants me to die, but if I don't die, he will have nothing to do with me except to beat me hard. And because I can't make a public announcement about this matter, I am still a decent girl of the Wang family to the outside world.

"These injuries on my back, some years ago, some days ago, he didn't dare to leave scars on my hands and face, for fear that people would lose face when asked, so they all hit my waist, back, chest and abdomen, and I couldn't tell which ones were new and which ones were old."

Saying that, she slowly rolled up her sleeves, and saw that there were many red scars bulging on her two slender arms.

Wang Anmei is the same year as Xie Lang, both are fourteen years old, but Wang Anmei doesn't look as tall as Xie Lang's shoulders. Even if there is a difference in height between men and women, if the development is normal, it will not fall into such a big disparity.

A person has endured so much suffering since childhood, it is no wonder that he is excited about the slightest benefit to others.

I ended up like that in my previous life, but I was still alive again. Like Wang Anmei, it's useless to be reborn many times, right?

"Am I unbearable?"

Wang Anmei raised her teary eyes and looked at her sadly.

She shook her head, silently took her hand, and said, "If someone says that you are unbearable, it must be that this person himself is horribly dirty. ”

Wang Anmei smiled, and two tears rolled down again.

"Sister," Xie Wan sighed, "Do you want to leave the Wang family and live your own life?" A lifetime of peace and stability, no worries about eating and drinking, not being blamed, in-laws are charitable, sister-in-law and uncle love you, and from now on, you will no longer let your mother worry? (To be continued.) )

ps: Thank you Xiaoxi, Ice and Snow Light, and Witch Hanyu for the pink tickets~~~ Thank you, dear ones~~~ Continue to ask for tickets~~~~