As soon as the Shangyuan Festival passed, it was also out of the New Year's Pass, and the Hengyuan Marquis Mansion began to be busy in an orderly manner, and the only people who got up early to go to the old lady to ask for peace were the only women left.

Rong Wen originally planned to go for a walk in the Zhuangzi shop left by her mother after the New Year, but it rained in the past two days, and it was cold and cold, so she didn't go out.

In the Jingyin Courtyard, I met the steward who took care of the shops in Shangjing, because their Rong family was in Yangzhou, and it took more than a month to go back and forth to Shangjing, in order to facilitate management, the shops in Shangjing were all in charge of the housekeepers.

The steward's name is Li Dafu, a thin man in his fifties, he brought reading glasses to hide the shrewdness in his eyes, and brought Rong Wen the account books of the twelve shops in the capital.

Li Dafu smiled respectfully: "Little owner, you have brought everything you want, if there is anything you don't understand, even if you order someone to find me, I will give the little owner clear instructions." ”

Although Li Dafu is respectful, but this is a 'little owner', and the tone is full of contempt for Rong Wen, a girl who has not been out of the cabinet, not that he looks down on anything else, but that this account book is enough to be one person high, and she can understand a girl who has not been out of the cabinet?

Even if you can understand it, it can't be straightened out.

Rong Wen was indeed a little worried when she looked at such a high account book, but she was not frightened, now she asked her mother for these dowries from her father, and since she came to Beijing, she had to take care of it carefully.

For five days in a row, Rong Wen stayed in the Jingyin Courtyard, and she went through these accounts, when she was in Yangzhou, she had learned some business from her grandmother, and when she met someone who didn't understand, she went to her second aunt to ask for advice, and now she has a rough idea in her heart.

Ye Yi saw that she was sitting in front of the bookcase for several hours, and persuaded: "Didn't the girl say that she was about to straighten it out yesterday, why did she sit for several hours?" The five girls have come to look for you several times, go out and walk with the five girls? ”

Rong Wen shook his head: "No, if I don't eat through these accounts at one time, I'm afraid I'll have to start all over again in a few days, and this person's motivation will be so breathless, and it won't work if I am relieved." ”

Ye Yi chuckled lightly and put the chestnut cake that was just made in the house on the bookcase: "The girl tasted it, it's still hot, the second lady ordered someone to send it, saying that the grandmother in the house is the best at doing this." ”

Rong Wen naturally opened his mouth slightly, and the pen in his hand did not stop, Ye Yi picked up a piece, broke it in half, and fed it to her: "Girl, five of these twelve shops are losing money, do you want to replace this Li Steward?" ”

Rong Wen chewed the sweet chestnut cake in his mouth: "No, he has managed these shops for nearly five years, and he has not filled his pockets, and the difference between the accounts and the accounts is only about ten taels of silver." ”

Ye Yi fed her a small piece again, Rong Wen was a little choked, and took a sip of tea: "The problem lies in the people who run the shop, the twelve shops, and the people in the eight shops are all his relatives, and some of these people are even illiterate, so how can they not lose money." ”

"Replace these people, and I first came to the capital, so many shops also need him, don't replace Li Dafu first."

Ye Yi: "This Li Dafu looks at the sharp-beaked monkey's gills, but he is quite honest." ”

Rong Wen chuckled: "There is the Hengyuan Marquis Mansion in Shangjing, who dares to fight the idea of these shops, Li Dafu knows the relationship between my mother and the Hengyuan Marquis Mansion." ”

Rong Wen will go to the capital to take care of these shops has been three days later, this morning, when she asked the old lady to say goodbye, said that she was going to go to a few Zhuangzi outside the city to have a look, the old lady was a little worried, wanted to find a man in the family to accompany her, but they were all busy to find no one.

So he sent a few more servants to follow.

There are three Zhuangzi outside the city, Rong Wen went to the nearest Zhuangzi to the capital and the largest in her mother's dowry, because the sun fell a few days in the morning, the road was delayed, and it was past noon when she arrived in the Zhuangzi.

After getting out of the carriage, Ye Yi put the fox fur together for her, and instructed: "Girl, although it is past the New Year, it has become colder and colder in the past few days. ”

Rong Wen glanced at the sky and said to a servant on the side: "You go back to the Hou Mansion and bring a message, and tell the old lady that if it snows, I will not go back to the Hou Mansion today and live in Zhuangzi." ”

The servants mounted their horses and returned to the city.

Uncle Wu, the steward of this Zhuangzi, came out to greet her, and took Rong Wen to walk around the Zhuangzi, and the old man with a gray beard looked at the children who were playing around him from time to time and sighed, and said to Rong Wen: "I was about to send a letter to Yangzhou these days, and the girl came." ”

Uncle Wu's worried look was written on his face, and he looked at him with bewilderment: "What happened?" ”

Uncle Wu sighed and said: "Our Zhuangzi is close to the capital, and it is a rare bright place within a radius of ten miles," Uncle Wu pointed to the Zhuangzi next door to Rong Wen: "There is the Zhuangzi of the nobles in the capital, I heard that he is still a powerful master, and he wants to change his Zhuangzi into a racecourse, which is specially used by the young ladies and sons in the capital to play. ”

Uncle Wu has been in this Zhuangzi for nearly ten years, and it has become a habit, not only him, but there are nearly 100 people who rely on this Zhuangzi to support their families, and he looks at these children who are playing very badly, and there is sadness between his eyebrows.

Rong Wen was silent for a while, and relieved Uncle Wu's heart: "They want to buy, let's not sell, is it possible that we can still buy and sell by force?" ”

Uncle Wu explained to her: "Their family has a lot of silver, and it is a big family in the capital," Uncle Wu smiled: "Girl, we can't afford to offend." ”

Wu Bo has been staying in Zhuangzi outside the city, and he doesn't know the relationship between Rongwen and the Hengyuan Marquis Mansion, and only thinks that his owner is just a magistrate far away in Yangzhou, and there is no reason why he can't make money if he has such a high amount of silver.

Rong Wen asked him: "Uncle Wu does you know, which family in the capital is Zhuangzi next door?" ”

Uncle Wu shook his head: "I don't know this, the nobles in the capital bought the Zhuangzi and put it here, and they rarely come over, and the people in the Zhuangzi don't dare to talk about the owner, I only know that it is a big family in the capital." ”

Rong Wen walked around the Zhuangzi for nearly two hours, and looked at the accounts again, Wu Bo had gone out, and then hurriedly walked back: "Girl, the old man just heard that the young owner of the Zhuangzi next door is here now, if the girl really doesn't want to sell this Zhuangzi, she might as well go and meet the young owner next door." ”

Rong Wen put down the account in his hand, glanced at Uncle Wu, and did not answer.

Uncle Wu knelt down with a 'poof', and his eyes instantly turned red: "Girl, the old man is old, maybe he won't live in this world one day, just for the children in this Zhuangzi beg you, this Zhuangzi can't be sold." ”

Wu Bosheng said with tears in his eyes, Rong Wen glanced at the sky outside, and said to Ye Yiyi: "Let someone go to the Zhuangzi next door to spread a word, and say that we want to visit." ”

Ye Yi went out and came back, and said dissatisfiedly: "Girl, then Uncle Wu is looking at you to talk well, kneeling and crying, now this world is not a problem to be fed and clothed, they have been comfortable in the Zhuangzi for a long time, if the girl wants to sell this Zhuangzi, you don't have to pay attention to it." ”

Rong Wen was laughed at by Ye Yi's words, and she used a sip of tea: "It's that I don't want to sell, I listen to Uncle Wu's meaning, the people in Zhuangzi next door are determined to buy it, since they have to see each other sooner or later, it is better to solve this matter today." ”

Ye Yi also smiled, she was really confused, how could her girl talk well, she didn't want to sell what her wife left behind.

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The Zhuangzi next door is drinking and talking at the moment, so lively.

A hot spring pool drawn from the ground is misty in the cold air of early spring, and in the warm pavilion not far away, one person strokes the piano, one drinks, and two people play chessboard games.

It is like a world away, hidden here between heaven and earth.

Only the drinker was a little rude, and teased: "Are you going to play this game of chess in the dark?" It's better than a newlywed. ”

The sound of the piano is melodious, and it is stained with turbidity.

Fu Zhan drank wine, and the skin of the prince of the family was torn off, such as when he was fighting on the frontier, he drank wine and ate meat with the soldiers, and did not care about the identity of the person who played chess.

At this time, a little servant came running quickly and replied: "General, the proprietor of the Zhuangzi next door has sent a message that he is coming to visit." ”

Fu Zhan was drinking and having fun, and scolded: "No, I didn't see Lao Tzu busy." ”

The little guy wanted to speak and stopped, and didn't dare to say more.

The person holding the white chess in the chess game casually joked to Fu Zhan: "General Fu is asking for help, why is he still so arrogant, your racecourse is not built?" ”

Fu Zhan laughed a few times when he heard this, he took the racetrack seriously, and called the little guy loudly: "Let him wait for a quarter of an hour to bring people here." ”

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When Rong Wen followed the people in Zhuangzi to this place, the sound of the piano had already stopped, and she smelled the aroma of wine from a distance, subconsciously swallowed her saliva, bypassed a rockery, and turned the mountain stone screen. ”

Someone answered: "Who is the owner of Zhuangzi next door, can we know each other?" ”

Fu Zhan pulled his voice: "It's a Yangzhou person, I don't know why he is in Beijing, if you think he is a philistine, I'll go to meet guests elsewhere." ”

Fu Zhan's words fell, and he saw the person who turned the screen and walked over.