Layue hesitated for a moment and asked, "It's true, but I don't know what Gongzi Lu wants to do with it?" It costs a few hundred taels of ink. ”

She had a plan in her heart, if the Lu family wanted to use Xing Ji's incense ink to take it elsewhere to name their own names and also do a rouge gouache business, then they had to have a good chat with him.

They are also businessmen, and they are all shrewd people with nine minds. As soon as Lu Gongzi heard it, he understood the meaning of Layue, and said with a smile, "Young lady, you misunderstood, the Lu family specializes in porcelain business, and wants your family to use this fragrant ink only because Xiaosheng has recently innovated the process of painting blanks, but the original pigment blending is always not ideal, and I accidentally saw the thrush incense ink used by my mother, which is extremely novel, and I tried to mix the pigment to paint a kiln blank, which is extremely perfect, so I thought about going to your shop one day to ask for advice, who knows that Xing Ji Rouge has been doing a lot of things recently, and I can't see you, even the big shopkeeper in the store has broken his legs and feet to recuperate and no one is seen." ”

I see, Layue laughed when she heard it. Accompany the two of them to tell them as they walk, "Master Lu, you have found the right place, this thrush water and fragrant ink is not my boast, it can be regarded as the only one in the sky and on the earth, and it is even rarer than our rouge." ”

Mrs. Shi was also interested when she heard this, and couldn't help asking.

Layue thought that since she was a child, every time she asked her father about the origin of this water fragrance ink, her father always smiled faintly and said that it was obtained by an accident when he was young, but he never wanted to mention where he got it.

Daddy liked to travel around the world before he was young and didn't get married, and he had some legendary experiences, and he could tell a lot of stories no matter what he asked, and the sheep rhinoceros grass was discovered by his father's travels when he was young.

But every time I asked about this water and ink, my father refused to say a word, and there was a little nostalgia and sadness in his eyes. At that time, I didn't understand it very well, but now that I think about it, I am afraid that behind this water and ink, there must be a not very good past of my father.

Layue smiled and said, "I don't know the origin of this water fragrance ink, my father only said that the material of this ink is not expensive, but the color painted is not worse than the best snail Tian, which is just so that ordinary people can afford it, and specially explained that no matter how many generations will pass in the future, even if the Xing Ji Rouge Shop is gone, this thing must not increase in price." ”

He said to Lu Gongzi again, "If you want to pay back one hundred taels a month, you won't be able to do it if you have more, and you have to keep it for the girls and daughters-in-law in Yecheng." ”

Lu Gongzi smiled and verbally agreed with her.

Mrs. Shi sighed and said, "Actually, Lixin came on a blind date in the name of the young lady." ”

Layue was stunned.

Shi Wenpo said, "Isn't this child's father in poor health?" The fortune teller said that it would be good for Lixin to hurry up and marry a newcomer and pass through the door, and it happened that your mother-in-law begged me to find a good family for your sister-in-law. She said dissatisfiedly, "Although Lixin's family is made of coarse porcelain, but the wealth is even worse than your Zhang Mansion, and Lixin is also a scholar, if it weren't for his father's abandonment of literature and business, wouldn't the literary style be as good as your city?" ”

As soon as the words came out, he realized that this sentence hurt Layue's face, and hurriedly smiled, "Don't take it seriously, I didn't mean to say that your city is bad." In short, Lixin is willing to come over and look at each other because he heard that he is the sister-in-law of Xing Ji Rouge's boss, otherwise this child will be very picky. ”

That's really ...... Layue lost her words, and she didn't know what to say for a while, so she had to laugh dryly.

said that he had arrived at the door, and beckoned Mrs. Shi to get into the car. Lu Gongzi turned over and got on the horse, and after getting on the horse, he suddenly turned back to Layue and said, "Xing Ji Rouge has been in trouble recently, if Madam needs someone to help, Lixin is willing to do it on her behalf." ”

How to make this, it was planned by oneself. But when she met such a sincere and willing person to help her, she wrote down this kindness.

Layue responded with a smile, and was stunned at the door for a moment before returning home.

Knowing that her mother-in-law would not spare her, she had a belly of anger to spread on herself, so she sighed and reluctantly went to see their mother and daughter.

The two mothers and daughters didn't say anything wrong with her today, and as soon as they entered the door, the mother-in-law reprimanded with a gloomy face, "I heard that your rouge shop has made a big deal and has not solved it until now?" ”

"Yes, my daughter-in-law is so busy that she can't find out what's wrong, so she stopped most of the rouge recently and only sold the previous inventory."

"So, the business has plummeted?" There was some eagerness in the mother-in-law's voice, "You are running like this, sooner or later you will put your father's hard work into it, it is all your own family, and I can't bear to see Xing Ji's rouge fall." ”

came, the wolf ambition of the mother-in-law finally leaked.

Layue lowered her eyelids without saying a word, and did not make any response.

Seeing that the wooden man in Layue was motionless, the mother-in-law was a little angry, raised her voice categorically, and said simply with an irrefutable voice, "You hand over the shop to the shopkeeper in our Zhangjia Rouge Shop, help you run it profitably, and then you take it back." ”

There was a circle of servants in the flower hall, but Layue couldn't help this breath anyway, regardless of the sudden raising of his eyes, Sen Sen glanced at his mother-in-law, and said, "Mother, you can do whatever you want, but Xing Ji Rouge's shop, the daughter-in-law promised not to give anyone else a day before her father died, if the mother thinks that the daughter-in-law is not filial because of this makes you angry, the mother wants to beat and scold and punish, and the daughter-in-law has no words." ”

Although the tone of her words was not intense, she was not arrogant or humble, and it seemed that her mother-in-law wanted to rob her of Xing Ji Rouge's shop.

Although I do have this in mind.

However, Mrs. Zhang is not a faceless person after all, and she was a little unable to get off the stage by her words, so she looked back and forth, and saw that no one showed contempt on her face, so she coughed twice and laughed twice, "It's just that I'm afraid that you are too hard working and inexperienced, and you will bury your father's hard-working business, what are you doing so fiercely." ”

After she finished speaking, she threw the handkerchief in her hand, got up and left with Wanqing, and when she passed by Layue's side, she said coldly, "Your attitude towards your elders has become more and more arrogant recently, and you don't understand the rules more and more, isn't this a shame for our family, just kneel here tonight and reflect on it all night, and spoil your temperament." ”

The four mothers-in-law immediately gathered around and looked at Layue.

The carved stone bricks in this flower hall are hard and cold, and now it has just begun summer, and the clothes worn are all clipped, so kneeling for a night, the knees have not to be wasted.

Layue sighed, knowing that she was acting carefully now, and her mother-in-law couldn't hold her mistakes, so she just found a reason to rake for herself.

But this kind of is the most helpless, and he raises a big hat to set rules for his daughter-in-law, even if he talks about it in the yamen, he doesn't pay attention to it.

Fortunately, after a while, Layue said that she even begged and coaxed.

Finally, the four mothers-in-law took a chair cushion with a thin silk embroidered satin circle and put it under their knees.

Coincidentally, the weather changed abruptly this night, and it rained, and Layue knelt down in the middle of the night, and felt that her knees were numb and tingling like a fire needle, and she shook her eyes twice, and she fainted in front of her.