The little maid's face was swollen with a red and swollen slap print, and there was a roar in her ears, and the ear on the other side of the beating was already deaf.

But she only dared to kowtow again and again:

"The third lady spares her life! It was my incompetence that I accidentally failed to hold the basin steady, not intentionally, begging the third lady not to sell me to the kiln! Even if I am asked to pick up dung and wash the bucket every day, I beg you! ”

The third brother of the Lin family in the study also came over when he heard this big movement.

He stepped into the room and looked at the little maid who was kneeling on the ground and kept kowtowing, and then looked at Xia Lian, who was shouting and scolding.

He frowned and said, "What's the matter?" Did the maid provoke you again? Why haven't you stopped giving me a day since you got married? ”

When Xia Lian heard this, his heart was even more angry, and he raised his hand and pointed at the nose of the third brother of the Lin family and scolded:

"You useless thing, I can't hurt Lao Tzu, I don't have the old lady to love, even take me to suffer the humiliation of Lin Zhuyun's hooves outside, and when I come back, I have to suffer the anger of the maid! When did I feel so wronged when I was in my mother's house? ”

When the third brother of the Lin family heard her mention her mother's family, he immediately went to a big red sour branch wooden chair in the room and sat down, lowering his head and not daring to open his mouth again.

"If you didn't think that you would be able to enter the Lin family and hold countless silver coins in your hands, do you think I would be willing to marry into your family? What a big face! ”

The third brother of the Lin family was sitting on the chair at the moment with his head drooping, letting her fingers poke at her head and scold.

Xia Lian is the second daughter of the Earl's Mansion who married him, although the descendants of the Xia Earl's Mansion are incompetent and have long since declined, but the status of the Youjue family has always been higher than that of the Lin Mansion, so as soon as Xia Lian mentioned his mother's family, the third brother of the Lin family did not dare to say anything else.

The housekeeper in the room couldn't stand it, and came out and said:

"The third lady should not be angry anymore, it will not be good if she is angry, and the slave maid has good news before she can tell you."

"What?" Xia Lian was tired of scolding at the moment, kicked away the kneeling little girl, and sat down on another chair.

"Just now, someone from outside said that the batch of goods we took out was really sold at a good price under the sign of Lin Ji!"

Xia Lian finally calmed down his anger when he heard the news, and smiled happily with his grandmother.

After finishing the account, Xia Lian thought about it in his heart, went to the third brother of the Lin family with tenderness, gently squeezed his shoulders and said:

"Xianggong, I'm too angry to say anything, don't take it to heart, after all, we're husband and wife."

Third Brother Lin snorted coldly and said that he understood.

Xia Lian continued: "But I really think that my father and mother are too partial. ”

The third brother of the Lin family finally spit out a sentence: "Didn't my father and mother give us all the shops outside the city, what else do you want?" ”

"Phew! You don't know anything, what does it matter if those shops are there, maybe your little sister's dowry will be countless shops! She shook the hand that pinched the shoulder of the third brother of the Lin family, and immediately retorted angrily.

"And what do you want?"

Xia Lian's eyes rolled and said: "Xianggong, those shops, jade carving technology is not the most important, what matters is the source of wool." ”

"But Daddy will never agree to monopolize ......"

Xia Lian patted him on the shoulder and said, "Oh, people have come up with the solution, you listen to me explain it to you." ”

Then she withdrew from the rest of the room, and the two of them snuck around the room not knowing what to say.

In the past few days, Lin Zhuyun has always seen the maids and maids gathering together and whispering something.

Suspicious, she found a place to hide in the rockery in the garden when she was idle at noon, and waited quietly.

After a while, a few little guys finally got together and started chatting.

"This Lin Mansion is definitely going to end, according to me, waiting to be sold, it's better for us to find an unguarded time at night and take the money and slip away."

"But our deed is still in the Lin Mansion, isn't it a black household if we escape by ourselves, where can we go to the mansion then?"

"If you want me to say, let's look at the wind again, this Lin Mansion will not be down all of a sudden."

Lin Zhuyun behind the rockery was shocked after hearing this conversation, and the handkerchief fell to the ground.

Obviously, the amount of food and clothing in the mansion has not decreased, and my father and mother have not worried about business matters, but in the mouths of these little guys, how did the Lin Mansion get to such a field?

Lin Zhuyun continued to eavesdrop with bated breath, but a few little guys didn't say what the reason was, Lin Zhuyun was anxious.

Finally, a few small servants dispersed, she came out from behind the rockery, and thought about the reliable maid Xiaotang who had served her since she was a child, so she called to ask.

"Miss, for some reason recently, a few officials and marquis families have spread the word that they will not accept our Lin Ji's jade carvings, and the people in the family are worried."

Lin Zhuyun was shocked, the Lin family relied on the business of jade carving, if this main business collapsed, the huge Lin family would definitely have no good end.

Don't say that the maids need to worry about the future, if the signboard of Lin Ji's jade carving is really smashed, Lin's father and Lin mother will not have a good end.

In her previous life, she didn't care about the family's business, thinking that with her father and three brothers behind her back, she could keep the stability and wealth of the Lin family.

Who would have expected that in the end, he would wait for a family to be ruined.

She has experienced life and death for a lifetime, and she knows that only when she is strong can she truly protect the people she cares about.

"Xiaotang, you accompany me to the market."

After that, Xiaotang changed Lin Zhuyun into a plain skirt with white veil covering his face, and took the two little girls to the largest jade market in Lingcheng.

In the market, wool, bright materials, jade carvings, etc., are randomly placed on the spread out silk for people to choose.

People who do jade business will come to find out if there are any good materials, and most people will come here to buy some jade carvings and jade bracelets and so on.

After shopping for half a day, suddenly Lin Zhuyun saw a familiar box, she stretched out her slender jade hand and picked up the box, which was a piece of jade jade cicada.

The boss saw that Lin Zhuyun had an extraordinary figure and a graceful bearing, thinking that he must be a big guest, and hurriedly smiled and said: "Miss is really good-looking, this is Lin Ji's jade cicada, and I am the only one in this market." ”

"Hasn't Lin Ji jade carving always only made high-quality jade carvings, and only sold them to officials and lords in their own shops? What kind of boss do you have here? ”

Lin Zhuyun picked up the jade cicada, the cicada belly was round, the cicada wings were clear, and there were special patterns carved on the back.

It is indeed the exclusive pattern of the Lin family, and the box containing jade is indeed the unique carved wooden box of the Lin family.

But the jade pendant is very poor, and the carving is also very poor, maybe outsiders don't know, but Lin Zhuyun knew at a glance that it was the practice of the Lin family's apprentices.

Apprentices' work is usually recycled into beads and sold at a low price to other shops that buy them.

It is impossible to use the Lin family's box to sell in the name of Lin Ji, what is going on?

It was a limited edition of fine jade carvings that only the official family could buy, but at this moment, the same defective products appeared in the big market.

In this way, the collection value of this Lin Ji jade carving will inevitably decline, no wonder those mansions have released words and will not accept Lin Ji.

Lin Zhuyun felt that this matter was very strange, and he had to find out.

The boss saw Lin Zhuyun's eyes thoughtful, and inquired about his source of goods, and immediately said vigilantly:

"I don't need to know how I got this product, but don't worry, this is really the Lin family's jade carving, and the price is much cheaper than in Lin Ji's shop."

Seeing this, Lin Zhuyun changed his expression and said softly:

"It's not to find out the boss's source of goods, it's just that I need a lot of Lin Ji's jade carvings recently, thinking that if the boss has a lot of them, then I'll collect them together."

"Really?" As soon as the boss heard that big business was coming, he immediately asked with a golden light in his eyes.

"I won't fool you, the premise is that it must be the Lin family's goods."

The boss looked Lin Zhuyun up and down again, and said with a little suspicion: "There is no basis for what I say, if I go to find the upper family, and the girl breaks her promise again, I can't afford it." ”

Hearing this, Lin Zhuyun glanced at Xiaotang, who took out ten taels of silver from his purse and stuffed it into the boss's hand, and said:

"These ten taels of silver are a deposit, if the goods are good, you will be guaranteed to earn. But if you don't know how to lift, our girl can buy your little stall in its entirety. ”

After a combination of soft and hard, the boss was already moved, and seeing Lin Zhuyun's style, he thought about which noble girl it should be, if he offended him, maybe his livelihood might be gone, so he smiled and said:

"Done! I'm going to fetch my lord, and I'm sorry to wait a little bit, girl. ”

After negotiating, Lin Zhuyun sat in the private room of Baoning Teahouse, waiting for the boss to bring someone over, just in case of accidents, the two sturdy little guys were still behind him.

After a while, the boss really brought someone over, and Lin Zhuyun was sure that he had not seen it in any of the Lin family's shops.

She carefully looked at every piece of jade carving that the man brought, and all of them were Lin Ji's apprentice studies without exception.

The man with the rat-eyed monkey cheeks said with a smirk while Lin Zhuyun was watching:

"Girl, take a closer look, this is really Lin Ji's thing, don't believe you look at this wooden box containing jade, except for Lin Ji, who can carve it so exquisitely?"

Lin Zhuyun carefully picked up the wooden box and looked at it, and the doubts in his heart were even more confused.

With so many assignments, it must not be an apprentice who steals them, and besides, the apprentice can't get the packed wooden box.

But she suppressed her doubts and put on a happy look on her face: "It's really all Lin Ji's goods, look at this Ruyi, which one can be carved by others!" ”

Seeing this, the man with rat-eyed monkey cheeks respectfully asked, "Does the girl have anything you like?" ”

"I like it, I like it all, I want it all!"

When the two of them heard Lin Zhuyun's big moves, they were suspicious in their hearts, and Lin Zhuyun said again:

"My house will go back to Beijing to visit relatives and friends soon, and the people in Beijing love this Lin Ji's jade carving collection, and it must be excellent to send it out when the time comes."

Hearing this, the doubts of the two have been dispelled, and after looking at each other, they said a number to Lin Zhuyun.

"It's a cheap price, but it saves me a lot of money. I want them all, and I'll take them with me today! ”

Lin Zhuyun ordered the little servant to take the silver taels, and at the same time carefully looked at the man with the jade carving, and confirmed that it was not the person in charge of the Lin family's shop.

"This big brother, but how much more? I haven't been back to Beijing for many years, and there are many relatives and friends to visit this time, so I want to bring more in case it is not enough. ”

The man with the cheeks hesitated for a moment and said, "If the girl can wait, I will bring it to you in three days' time." ”

"Wait, wait. Then bother this big brother. ”

After Lin Zhuyun saw the two of them leave, he instructed the two little servants to keep an eye on them for the past three days to find out who the Lin family was colluding with them.

After returning to the house, Lin Zhuyun hurriedly rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to count his money.

She was extravagant and spent money extravagantly before, and the large sum she just spent was already all her current cash.

She sat down in her chair like a deflated balloon, her chin clenched and screaming at pain, wondering if she would go to the white wolf in three days.