Chapter 24: Xiao Qingxuan and Zuo Lingtian
The woman's double ten years old, with a golden hairpin obliquely inserted between her buns, her eyes are like red apricots, her eyebrows are like crescent moons, and her graceful figure has shown a bit of maturity that is exclusive to women.
Although there is no powder, the softness between the eyebrows has not been reduced in the slightest, especially a cherry red mouth, with a little natural spring.
Xiao Qingxuan is in her twenties, different from Lin Daiyu's youthful girlishness, her soft temperament has begun to appear.
Sitting on the stool, his eyebrows frowned slightly, as if questioning Zuo Lingtian:
"Young Master Zuo. Young Master Zuo, I beg you, if you are short of money, tell me why do you have to blackmail a group of sons? ”
Xiao Qingxuan is not an impulsive person, he only thought that it was more likely that Zuo Lingtian would blackmail the children of the salt merchants, but the dishes he saw on the road, the price even Xiao Qingxuan felt pain when he saw it.
Coupled with the impression of Zuo Lingtian's few bandits, he was completely sure that Zuo Lingtian had robbed the children of those salt merchants.
Zuo Lingtian and Lin Daiyu were also stunned, and Xiao Qingxuan suddenly broke in and questioned Zuo Lingtian.
Didn't I just beat up those salt merchant boys, do you want such a big reaction?
No, I actually collected their wealth and redistributed it to increase my own income and increase the happiness of my residents.
It's a big loss, it's a big loss.
After Xiao Qingxuan's reminder, Zuo Lingtian found that he seemed to have missed an opportunity to make a fortune.
If Xiao Qingxuan knew that she had opened a way for Zuo Lingtian to get rich quick, I don't know if she would regret it.
However, Zuo Lingtian really didn't grab it, and he couldn't let Xiao Qingxuan speculate wildly.
"I didn't rob their silver, even if I robbed it, I wouldn't be able to spend it here, a plate of carved tofu would cost thirty taels of silver, if I was definitely not here, the chef in the capital of Dingxianglou next door would only buy ten taels of silver."
"And where did you get the money?"
"I said where I got the money, I won't pay here, it's not my money."
Xiao Qingxuan doesn't believe it, it's not your money, who else can't be Lin Daiyu.
"Zuo Gongzi, you have a very good relationship with Lord Lin, I know, you have offended all the salt merchants in Yangzhou in court before, and now you are robbing the silver of the children of the salt merchants, do you want the salt merchants to hate Lord Lin?"
Xiao Qingxuan is really a little anxious, the official relationship between the salt merchants has always been maintained by the Xiao family, and at the same time, he is one of the chief merchants of the salt merchants.
Salt merchants want face, officials want money.
The two of them were put together, and Zuo Lingtian's previous series of practices in the public court had offended the salt merchants, but the reason was sufficient, the national law was in the forefront, and no one could say anything.
But now, Zuo Lingtian robbed other people's silver, purely to give the handle to someone else's hand.
The salt merchant has been passed down from generation to generation, and the loss of his son is also a superficial scenery, but in fact, the grasshopper after the autumn can not be bounced for two days. Otherwise, Li Yuhan would not have been raised as a boy since he was a child.
The old man Xiao of the Xiao family has only one son, but the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, and now there are only two women left in the entire Xiao family, Xiao Qingxuan and Xiao Yushu.
Old man Xiao also began to cede power, except for the business affairs of the family to be temporarily handed over to Xiao Qingxuan to manage, and the friends in the officialdom were never allowed to interfere with the Xiao family sisters.
The position of the leader of the Xiao family was also given to the Li family, and the old man Xiao directly lived in seclusion behind the scenes, gradually reducing his influence, and striving to keep the Xiao family's salt road after he returned to heaven in this way, which can be regarded as leaving a back road family property for Xiao Qingxuan and Xiao Yushu, so as not to be angry with her husband's family in vain.
From beginning to end, Xiao Qingxuan was not a member of the salt merchants, but he knew very well the internal affairs of the salt merchants.
Xiao Qingxuan really fell in love with this dusty girl who surprised him from the beginning of his acquaintance with Lin Daiyu, Zuo Lingtian robbed the salt merchants' children of gold and silver, needless to say, the salt merchants would definitely not dare to retaliate against Zuo Lingtian, so they could only settle the account on Lin Ruhai, who was close to him.
Even if it was a matter in court before, in the eyes of the salt merchants, it was Lin Ruhai who planned it behind his back, but Xiao Qingxuan, who knew that Zuo Lingtian was in detail, knew that it was completely planned by Zuo Lingtian alone.
Zuo Lingtian is completely putting Lin Ruhai in a dangerous position, Xiao Qingxuan is worried that Lin Ruhai will be restrained by the salt merchants in all aspects in the future, will Lin Daiyu be better at that time?
These words seemed to warn Zuo Lingtian, but they made Lin Daiyu feel warm in her heart.
Since the death of Lin Daiyu's mother Jia Min, it is estimated that Lin Ruhai is the only one left in the world who really cares about Lin Daiyu.
Now Xiao Qingxuan's active concern has brought the relationship between Lin Daiyu and Xiao Qingxuan a lot closer.
Lin Daiyuyu smiled with her hand, picked up a piece of fish meat, and said softly:
"Sister taste it, is it delicious?"
Xiao Qingxuan took a sip gently, Xu put too much oil when cooking fish, and his vermilion lips were shiny and shiny, so he swallowed it in a hurry and continued to persuade:
"It's delicious, it's delicious, but my sister ...... Not. “
Before he finished speaking, Lin Daiyu wiped the oil stains on the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, "Haha, sister, I will be the left brother invited by the host at this time." ”
"But so much money from you?"
Xiao Qingxuan still didn't believe it, so she saw Lin Daiyu take out a silver ticket of one thousand taels from her cuff, and instantly understood.
The five generations of the Lin family are the marquis, and when it comes to Lin Ruhai's generation, there is also a Tanhualang, is there not much production capacity in the family? Lin Ruhai's love for his daughter is famous, and he doesn't give this money to Lin Daiyu.
Thinking about this clearly, Xiao Qingxuan put his mind at ease, took out a few silver tickets from his arms, and handed them to Xue Yan:
"Sister, I'm worried about it, although you worship me as a teacher, but we are about the same age, my sister has been busy with the poetry club recently, and this silver ticket was your own pocket money at that time, and it also saved me a lot of trouble Lord Lin."
Zuo Lingtian glanced at it, good guy, it's a few thousand taels again.
A few thousand taels of silver as pocket money, I'm not sour, I'm not sour.
It's not that Zuo Lingtian hasn't seen so much money, it's that he hasn't had so much money.
Lin Daiyu didn't even look at it, she just let Xue Yan take it, and thanked Xiao Qingxuan: "Sister bothered." ”
"It's nothing, it's just a little silver, it doesn't have to be like this."
A few thousand taels is indeed a small amount of money for Xiao Qingxuan, and she doesn't care, Lin Daiyu also understands that if she shirks it, it will hurt her feelings.
Lin Daiyu and Xiao Qingxuan were talking and laughing, but Zuo Lingtian just didn't speak on the side.
Xiao Qingxuan also noticed that Zuo Lingtian, who had made the Yangzhou salt merchants uneasy, bowed his head to eat vegetables like a good baby at the moment, and couldn't help laughing:
"Zuo Gongzi, why are you so gentle."