After the scum of the paranoid villain, I failed to escape

Chapter 61 Minor Trajectory Changes

Hearing that she finally brought up the topic, Zuo Weiyue, who had always been curious about why Lou Huai invited Xie Shiyun to the teahouse alone, sat up straight, and her ears also perked up.

Lou Huai glanced at the curious girl beside her, pressed the corners of her lips that were about to be bent, and played with the black Buddha string on her left wrist with her right hand.

"I was born in a businessman's family. Something happened to my family, so I fled to the City of Eternal Chill for temporary shelter."

"People who are in business?" Xie Shiyun looked at the high-quality clothes on Lou Huai's body, and remembered that he had taken out the token from Si Yi, the third son of the Si family, and asked tentatively, "Has your family ever Are you doing business in the capital?"

Lou Huai nodded: "That's the case, that's why I thought of asking you something after remembering that you were once a member of the prime minister's residence."

Speaking of this, Lou Huai added another sentence in order to increase the possibility of Xie Shiyun's cooperative answer: "Of course, if the questions I ask are too embarrassing for you, you can also choose not to answer, it's okay."

Originally, Xie Shiyun really thought so. After all, the place she used to stay in was unusual, and the news she could hear was better than it could be spread out at will. She had to be more cautious.

But when Lou Huai said this, she thought of him saving her before, and her heart began to waver again, she bit her lips and said, "Then Wuyou, you can ask first, I'll hear what the problem is."

Zuo Weiyue propped her cheeks to look at Lou Huai, with the same curiosity as Xie Shiyun on her face.

Lou Huai nodded: "My family makes a living by selling aquatic products, but half a month ago, I got news that the sale of aquatic products in small shops can no longer be carried out in the Anyang River area of ​​the capital, and has been monopolized by a small shop. My father and brother were so angry that they wanted to ask for an explanation, but they were all severely taught."

"If I remember aquatic products well, the water transport along the Anyang River in the capital city has been secretly taken over by the Ministry of Industry. This monopoly shop may belong to the Ministry of Industry."

"Ministry of Industry?" Lou Huai frowned, this was completely inconsistent with the information he had learned in his previous life, in which it was Prince Gong who started to intervene in the water transportation along the Anyang River.

As Xie Shiyun said, she got up and closed the window of the private room with a cautious look on her face.

"Wu You, this matter, Daddy, Prime Minister Xie, he once told me that I should not be allowed to talk to outsiders, but you are different, I trust you, and you saved me once again, I should tell the truth about it Tell you."

Zuo Weiyue remembered what Lou Huai told her on the way before coming here, and wrote down all the key news Xie Shiyun said.

In order not to miss any key information, she directly wrote down what Xie Shiyun said in the booklet with the ink pen that Lou Huai gave her.

But Xie Shiyun spoke too fast, before she finished memorizing what she had in hand, she saw her lips twitch, as if she was going to say something else.

Zuo Weiyue had no choice but to pull Lou Huai's sleeve, and looked at him for help.

Lou Huai received Zuo Weiyue's eyes asking for help, and after a moment of joy, he interrupted Xie Shiyun and said, "Drink some tea first. After talking so much, my throat must be a little dry, so don't be so anxious."

Xie Shiyun actually didn't feel dry mouth, but thinking that this was Lou Huai's way of expressing her concern, she picked up the teacup, blew on the white smoke, and took a sip.

Perhaps it was because the person she met was the person she wanted to see, and she actually felt a little sweet in her mouth after drinking this kind of inferior tea.

Without the slightest idea, Lou Huai did this only to let Zuo Weiyue keep up with the speed she said to record.

Seeing that Zuo Weiyue had already bent her lips and stopped writing, and looked at him again, Lou Huai's eyes fell on Xie Shiyun.

Xie Shiyun drank the tea and continued: "However, I heard that the water transport rivers under the management of the Ministry of Industry, except for the Anyang River, Anyin River, Dongxi River, and Xichu River, the Nanchu River and Beichu River can still continue as usual. In the water transportation business, Wuyou, didn’t your family consider these two places at the time?”

The Anyang and Anyin rivers are two that are closer to the imperial palace in the capital. The same is true for the East and West Chu rivers. The South and North Chu rivers are relatively remote. They are in the suburbs. Unloading and loading in the suburbs requires more land transportation. cost.

Therefore, the general merchants will not give priority to these two rivers.

Xie Shiyun didn't know about this matter.

After Lou Huai explained the reason, she realized later.

"In addition, my father and brother have offended the people who are in charge of the commercial workshop of the Ministry of Industry. Even if I can resume my old business in Nanchuhe and Beichuhe, it will be more difficult, so I thought that I, who was traveling abroad, would come to the city of eternal cold to escape. Let’s avoid it, let’s see if we can develop it here.”

What Lou Huai said was all well-founded and impeccable, so Xie Shiyun couldn't find anything to doubt.

Seeing that he really seemed to have the idea of ​​developing in the City of Eternal Cold, Xie Shiyun thought for a while, and finally said that her former brother was on duty in the Ministry of Industry.

"My second brother, he has the best relationship with me. Even though I was wronged by him, he didn't alienate me because of it. I also received a letter from him yesterday saying that he will arrive in Yonghan in three days. City to deal with business, come and see me."

Xie Shiyun's second elder brother, Lou Huai, has memories of being Xie Youji, the director of the Dushuiqing Officials Department of the Ministry of Industry, who gave birth to Prime Minister Xie's second son.

But even so, he still pretended to be curious and looked at Xie Shiyun, as if asking her what her second brother's coming had to do with him.

Seeing his doubts, Xie Shiyun revealed Xie Youji's identity and position.

"If you can have my second elder brother's help, if you want to start your family's old business in the city of eternal cold, it should be much easier."

No matter how kind Xie Youji was to her, it was impossible for him to stay in the City of Eternal Cold forever.

So she had to hurry up and make plans for herself when there was still some brother-sister relationship between her and Xie Youji.

She can't count on her own father who is a barefoot doctor, so she can only see if Wuyou in front of her can be lifted up.

It was her words that Lou Huai was waiting for. After pretending to be surprised, he got up and bowed to Xie Shiyun with fists and bows.

"Thank you Shiyun, it is really necessary for me now."

As he spoke, Lou Huai seemed to have remembered something, took out a wooden hairpin from his cuff, and handed it to Xie Shiyun.

"I'm currently cash-strapped, and I don't have any good things in my hands. I can only use this hairpin as a thank you gift. When I am more capable in the future, I will give you a better gift."

Zuo Weiyue finished writing with great effort, and looked at the wooden hairpin that Lou Huai handed to Xie Shiyun, the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became.

There is only a simple water pattern carving on the wooden hairpin, and there is even a small hole missing at the tail of the hairpin, which is a bit black.

If she remembered correctly, this seemed to be something that Ah Zheng planned to throw away early in the morning?
　Lou Huai: Please call me Master Perfunctory.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)