Immediately afterwards, Wei Yichen took out the letter written by Xu Fengyuan from his arms: "Boudoir women should not have correspondence with foreign men, today's letter is Brother Xu asking why you are against the marriage of the two families, don't reply to the letter after you read it, tell the eldest brother directly if you have any ideas, and the eldest brother will help you bring the words to Brother Xu." ”

Wei Ruo looked at Wei Yichen's serious expression and asked, "Big brother will really help me talk?" Even if I want to destroy this family business? ”

"As long as it's not out of line, I'll bring it for you, and I won't go against your will." Wei Yichen promised.

Wei Ruo didn't answer, but looked at Wei Yichen.

Wei Yichen felt Wei Ruo's distrust of him, and was a little lost, but he felt helpless, so he added: "The lintel of the Wei family should be supported by the men in the family, and it will never be consolidated by a woman's high marriage." ”

Wei Yichen was deeply influenced by his father Wei Mingting in this regard, and believed that the sisters in the family should grow up in pampering, and their lives would be smooth.

Wei Ruodao: "Then there is Brother Lao." ”

Then he took the letter in Wei Yichen's hand and opened the letter in front of Wei Yichen.

The content is quite simple, and there is nothing out of the ordinary, the meaning expressed throughout the article is: politely ask Wei Ruoke if there is anything dissatisfied with the Xu family, or if there is any misunderstanding, I hope to communicate in time to avoid misunderstanding.

And in order to avoid unnecessary trouble caused by the letter falling into the hands of others, the letter was not headed and signed.

After reading it, Wei Ruo returned the letter to Wei Yichen: "Trouble the eldest brother told Xu Gongzi that I have no dissatisfaction with him and the Xu family, but I know that my temperament is not worthy of the responsibility of being the housewife." What's more, Xu Gongzi is going to become an official in the future, and I am a person who has been used to being willful in the countryside since I was a child, and I can't be a virtuous helper, and I can't stand such constraints. ”

"Okay, the eldest brother knows, the eldest brother will bring Ruo'er's meaning to Xu Gongzi."

Wei Yichen nodded, and then stopped stopping Wei Ruo, and watched Wei Ruo walk in the direction of Tingsong Yuan.

It wasn't until Wei Ruo's figure disappeared that Wei Yichen took his gaze back.

Today, there are two things on his mind, and Wei Yichen feels a lot more relaxed.

When Wei Yichen walked back, he met Wei Yilin, and he was standing around the corner, looking at Wei Yichen with small eyes.

"You've just been watching me and your big sister?" Wei Yichen asked.

"Hmm." Wei Yilin nodded, "I don't want to see you two fight again." ”

"No, the last time was the eldest brother impulsive, my father was critically ill at the time, and he was anxious for a while, and he couldn't control himself, so he accidentally injured your eldest sister, and the eldest brother will try to avoid such things in the future, and don't do it again."

Wei Yilin nodded heavily: "That's good." ”

Wei Yichen smiled and couldn't help touching Wei Yilin's head: "You are really more sensible now, and you know how to worry about things between big brothers and sisters." ”

"I'm already very sensible, of course I want everyone to be well, although I didn't like big sister before, and I think it was because of her that Sister Wanwan was unhappy. But after getting along, I don't think she is so annoying, and there is a little bit of pity. And she is a member of our family, as a man in the family, of course she should protect the women in the family. ”

"Hmm." Wei Yichen touched Wei Yilin's head, "The eldest brother will spend less and less time at home in the future, and my father will always stay in the barracks, and the family will rely on you in the future." ”

"Don't worry, big brother, leave it to me!" Wei Yilin patted his chest and said.

The brothers said as they went back to their respective yards.

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After returning to Tingsong Garden, Xiumei asked Wei Ruo: "Miss, is what the eldest young master said just now true?" Will he really help Miss refuse the marriage of the Xu family? Madame is very optimistic about this marriage, and looking at the movements in the house in the past few days, I am afraid that it will be ......"

"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, it doesn't affect my plans. It really pushed me into a hurry, I can do everything, the so-called barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, as long as I am not afraid of a bad reputation, the initiative is in my hands. ”

The premise of the Yun family's ability to handle Wei Ruo's marriage is that Wei Ruo cares about his reputation and wants to marry a wishful husband in the future, as long as Wei Ruo can get out, the initiative is in Wei Ruo's own hands.

Of course, Wei Ruo also knew that she still had to be in control of this matter, and she couldn't overdo it.

If it really passed, the Wei family directly let her hang Bai Ling for the sake of fame, then she really didn't reason.

Wei Ruo returned to the room and began to look at the account books, there are a lot of account books recently, except for the nurse and the steward Yu who can help her deal with some of them, Wei Ruo basically has to check the other parts by herself and do it herself.

Xiumei couldn't help much in this regard, whenever Wei Ruo picked up the lamp to look at the account books, she could only cook some ginseng tea and supper for Wei Ruo, and accompany and serve beside her.

Wei Ruo's current shop, except for the grain shop, which has been closed and suspended, the other shops are still the same, and the business situation is definitely not as good as before, but they are all profitable.

Especially for liquor, the income greatly exceeded Wei Ruo's expectations, two jars of wine a day, and a stable sale of 98 taels of silver (50 taels for lo-mei shops and 48 taels for drunken Xianju).

In terms of Sibao Zhai, paper is still in short supply, and those who can afford this paper in the city are all noble children, and they are willing to spend a lot of money on reading, even if the external situation is not good now, it will not affect the daily expenses of these noble children.

The sales of pen and ink inkstones have declined, so the last time Wei Ruo specially asked Sibaozhai to hold an event to attract the majority of literati and ink writers with the ink treasures of Tibetan forest monks and a year's supply of paper as prizes, in order to increase a wave of sales and go to a wave of inventory.

Later, in terms of purchase, she will appropriately reduce the purchase of pen and ink inkstones to avoid squeezing too much inventory.

Because the pen and ink inkstones are all purchased from other places, once the inventory is squeezed, it will be very unfavorable for her.

The sales of lo-mei shops have not changed much, and the sales during this period should have declined, but because of the popularity of thyme, the sales of lo-mei have been driven, and the daily turnover is not much worse than before.

The supply of seasonings at Zuixianju has also remained basically unchanged recently, because Wei Ruo estimates that the situation is very similar to that of the lo-mei shop, probably because the introduction of thyme has increased the number of customers, hedging the decline in customer flow caused by the recent economic downturn.

兴善县那边的香菇种植产业今年上半年扩大了不少，尤其是那波寒潮之后，魏若更是加大了对菌菇种植的投入，最近几乎兴善县西面那附近所有适合种植香菇的山洞全部给买下来了。

(End of chapter)