In this way, the price of grain began to slow down, and it suddenly became a little difficult for the Bai family to manipulate the price of grain again, because Bai Zhanyang found that those peers were all against him, and even dared to break with him in person.

Lin Shuran didn't worry about the wine shop anymore after doing what she could do, and now she is bent on finding the whereabouts of Xu Junze and her fifth uncle, seeing that a month is about to pass again, and another month will celebrate the New Year, but there is still no news of Xu Junze and them.

On the second day of entering the lunar month, Honggu hurried back from outside, and she happily told Lin Shuran that there was already news of Xu Junze and Dongfang Ji, and now several people were in Suzhou.

"Suzhou? Did he go to find the fifth? Lin Shuran was also very excited when he heard the news, and he was relieved.

Honggu replied: "I don't know this very well, it should be!" ”

As soon as Honggu got the news, she came to inform Lin Shuran, because there was no whereabouts of Xu Junze during this time, Lin Shuran couldn't sleep well every night, but fortunately, the child in her belly was very obedient and didn't toss her much, but a woman can't tell which day she gave birth, and the Queen Mother even found Lin Shuran and let her live in the General's Mansion.

"Mother, is the sister in the belly about to come out?" Old Ten Xu Mingsheng stared at Lin Shuran's big belly and asked.

"It can't be so fast, the time should be the New Year!" This is what Imperial Doctor Mei, who asks for a safe pulse for himself every day, Lin Shuran himself is not sure, seeing the nervousness on the little face of the old ten Xu Mingsheng, he deliberately teased him, "This may be a younger brother, not a younger sister!" ”

"Mother, don't lie to me, it must be my sister, the eleventh brother, the twelfth brother and the thirteenth brother all say that it is a younger sister, Mama Zhang said, the eyes of children are the truest, they can see whether it is a younger brother or a younger sister in the mother's belly!" Old Ten Xu Mingsheng said to Lin Shuran very seriously, and that tone did not allow Lin Shuran to refute at all.

Lin Shuran doesn't care very much about giving birth to boys and girls, as long as it is her child, she loves both men and women, but these boys in the family have been thinking about their "sister" for a year, if they give birth to a fourteenth brother, they will probably be very disappointed, and I don't know if Xu Junze will prefer boys or girls.

Not long after, Lin Shuran received Xu Junze's letter again, still the same sentence, he will rush home before Chinese New Year's Eve, other things did not say much, as for the fifth elder Xu Mingyuan still has no news.

Although Lin Shuran didn't want to admit it, Xu Mingyuan, the fifth elder of the Xu family, might not have much hope of being alive, but as long as she didn't see the corpse, she thought that he was still alive in this world, and maybe one day he would stand alive in front of her again.

The days of the year before always passed very quickly, Lin Shuran didn't have to do anything by herself, but she didn't feel at ease, she still let the people in the house be busy preparing all kinds of things needed for the New Year, and the New Year's gifts of each family should also be prepared in advance.

"Brother Han, how was the business of the sugar shop and the liquor store a year ago?" Since Xu Minghan took over the shop, Lin Shuran has not had many opportunities to see him in the mansion.

Now Xu Mingchen is also helping him take care of his business while studying, Xu Mingye is concentrating on staying at home, he is worried that someone will come to find trouble like Su Yunsheng before, and the other children of the Xu family are also practicing martial arts and calligraphy very seriously every day, and the days are calm and indifferent, everyone is looking forward to Xu Junze and Xu Mingyuan going home as soon as possible.

"Mother, the business is very good, I'm afraid I won't be able to be idle during the New Year, Steward Wu helped me find some people, they work very hard, I follow my mother's instructions, give them a lot of wages every month, and there will be rewards at the end of the year." Xu Minghan replied.

"Business is not done in a day, you also have to pay attention to rest, but do not fall behind in your homework, find a suitable opportunity, find a capable shopkeeper or helper, some things to learn to be assigned to others to do, and do not have to do everything yourself, if you want to do business in the future, you must first learn how to control people, the people under your hands are used well, and you get twice the result with half the effort!" Lin Shuran taught him.

Xu Minghan nodded, and after a while, Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye also came, Lin Shuran specially brought them together today, and then asked Chunxi to take out a small box and hand it to the boss Xu Mingchen.

"Mother, what is this?" Xu Mingchen didn't open it, but asked curiously.

Lin Shuran smiled and said to them: "Here is a hundred thousand taels of silver tickets, your father wrote last time, saying that you should take this silver to find a person named Wu Xuan, and then give him the silver." ”

Xu Junze's letter only said that Lin Shuran would take out fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver from the public school, and then let Xu Mingchen's brothers send it to a person named Wu Fontanelle, she probably knew what the silver was used for from Wu Bao before, so she took out 100,000 taels on her own initiative, and decided to take out 100,000 taels of silver every year in the future, which is not much difficult for the current Great General's Mansion, and her family's sugar shop and wine shop business is so good, just for the heart of Emperor An, the silver should also be more, She didn't believe that Xu Junze took "huge silver" from his pocket every year, and Emperor Zhao You didn't know anything about it.

The queen mother and the emperor are sincere to Xu Junze and her, but no one can guarantee whether this sincerity will change one day, so she doesn't want the general's mansion to be jealous of the emperor one day, she hopes that this "sincerity" can last a little longer.

"Don't worry, mother, this matter will be handled by the child!" Xu Mingchen hugged the box tightly, he knew that Wu Tuange was Xu Junze's former subordinate, and now he was also serving in the military camp in the capital, and their brothers also guessed what Xu Junze was doing when he took the money out of the mansion every year.

Lin Shuran was relieved, and Xu Junze suddenly decided to let Xu Mingchen's brothers do this this year, which was to show his trust and reuse of them, and I am afraid that it is also to prepare for them to enter the military camp in the future, after the New Year Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye will be fifteen years old, and by the time they are sixteen years old, according to Xu Junze's idea, they will all enter the military camp.

Lin Shuran has no qualifications to object to the fact that the children in the family will enter the military camp when they reach the age of sixteen, because this is set by the emperor and Xu Junze from the beginning.

However, Lin Shuran thought that there was nothing wrong with boys going to the barracks to experience it, not to mention that they were all descendants of martyrs, but she never thought that Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye would think about advancing this time.

The three brothers took the box and went to see Wu Fontanelle together, and after they came back, Xu Mingchen and Xu Mingye said to Lin Shuran that after Xu Junze came back this time, the two brothers planned to enter the military camp first.

"Why did you suddenly have this idea?" Lin Shuran looked at the two brothers in surprise and asked.

It's just to send a money box, can't it be that the two sons can't be put in?

(End of chapter)