I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 43 Borrowing Money
Zhang Yun'er silenced the crying.She raised her tearful eyes to look at Li Xian'e, seeing her sharp eyes, with a kind of calm and self-imposing aura, she was timid for a moment, and she didn't dare to say more.

Mo Yunxiang hurriedly said: "We still have Shiyu! If Shiyu is on our side, we will be three to three. Besides, Privy Zeng is a high official in the court, so there is no reason to throw out the guests who invite you in."

Embarrassment appeared on Zeng Bu's face, and he hurriedly said: "Hey... yes, the second girl is right. He Lu is Yuru's confidant, and should be mine. We must not let everyone go out in such a hurry. "

"Hmph! The second daughter is really shameless!" Yunxi scolded Yunxiang, and said, "Private Zeng took us in because of the face of the eldest daughter and Mrs. Wei, so you don't have the right to speak!"

Mo Yunxiang stared, and was about to reply, but Mrs. Wei said first: "Everyone, stop arguing."

She walked to the middle of everyone, smiled and said: "He Lu is reasonable, and the second girl is sentimental. One is reasonable and the other is sentimental. It is indeed difficult to choose. Why don't we discuss it again. Even if we want to leave, there should be a proper one. The arrangement of the three girls and the two grandmas must not let the three girls suffer."

Mrs. Wei's words were polite and polite, and there was no dispute between the two parties.Mo Yunxiang glared at Yunxi fiercely, then turned around and left with Zhang Yuner resentfully.

That night, Mo Yunxiao and Mrs. Wei were strolling in the garden, but it was quite pleasant to hear the chirping of birds and the rustling of the cool breeze.

"He Lu, I should really be angry with you." Madam Wei said, sitting on the stone bench by the gazebo.Mo Yunxiao was taken aback, then sat down and asked, "How did Yuru say that?"

"Your painting skills are superb, and you won't let the officials, and you can't compare me with your lyrics and poems." Mrs. Wei said with a bit of reproach, "But you never mentioned it, didn't I never come to you?" Have you ever been in your heart?"

Mo Yunxiao lowered her head and smiled, and said: "Yuru, I didn't mean to hide it from you. It's just that my family...you know that although I am the eldest daughter in the family, my father always only let me learn how to do business, and never let me learn how to do business. I was not allowed to draw. So all these years, I had to bear it, and I even kept it from you. But I hope you don't blame me, you should understand my difficulties."

These words were so sincere that Mrs. Wei couldn't help being moved.She gently held Mo Yunxiao's slightly cold hand, and said, "He Lu, I'm too petty. Sigh, but when it comes to your family, it's really hard to describe."

"You saw it today too..." Mo Yunxiao smiled wryly and shook her head, unknowingly, she had regarded this Minglou Mo's house as her own home.She said: "Our sisters and aunts all have their own thoughts. Yunxiang and the others want to stay in your house for a long time, so what's the matter? Alas, it's because her father didn't teach her well and made her like this shameless."

Mrs. Wei murmured: "I can't blame her. After your Minglou's catastrophe, the fairy peaches on the high branches suddenly fell into the mud. No one can bear it. The mother and daughter Yunxiang are afraid of going out. No food or clothing."

Mo Yunxiao nodded and said, "That's why I have to go out even more. Before he died, my father asked me to put up the signboard of Minglou again. I have to obey orders. Besides, I also want to kill those who harm our family." Find them one by one to settle accounts!"

"Helu!" Mrs. Wei called her quite nervously, and said with a worried look: "I didn't pour cold water on you. You are a citizen, and Qiu Feng is an official. Behind him is the governor of Kaifeng. Kaifeng Behind Fu Yin is Zai Zhi Zhang Dun. How can you beat him?"

Mo Yunxiao frowned, and asked, "What does Yi Yuru mean, my father's revenge can't be avenged?"

Mrs. Wei was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Of course you have to take revenge. It's just that I don't want you to take risks."

"Don't worry, Yuru." She stood up, looked at the unblooming flowers in the garden, and said, "However, I still want to ask Yuru to do me a favor."

"What?" Madam Wei asked.

Mo Yunxiao turned around to look at her, and said with a smile: "I don't know where my maid, Huan'er, has been sold, can you help me find it?"

"This..." Mrs. Wei hesitated for a moment, but seeing Mo Yunxiao's candid expression, she felt a sense of pride in her heart, she patted the table and said, "Okay! Even if it's the ends of the earth, I'll help you find Huan'er. "

"Thank you, Yuru." Mo Yunxiao came up to her, held her hand tightly, and said, "I want to revive my family business, and Huan'er is my best helper."

Mrs. Wei smiled and said, "I want to give you another gift." As she spoke, she took off a jade bracelet from her hand, handed it to Mo Yunxiao and said, "This bracelet is a gift from the Queen Mother, and it is priceless. If you If you pawn it, at least five hundred coins can be exchanged. Then you will have the confidence to revive your family business."

But Mo Yunxiao pushed his hand and said: "No, no, Yuru. I understand your kindness. But, I must do it by myself."

"On your own?" Mrs. Wei was a little puzzled, and asked, "How can I rely on the law?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled "puchi" and said, "Did you forget that I can also write and draw? I can sell it! It just costs you some ink, you won't feel bad, will you?"

Mrs. Wei laughed, pointed at her and said, "You are an elf! However, even if it is a good painting, it is not worth a hundred pennies. How much do you need to sell to open a shop?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled confidently, and said, "Don't worry, I have my own way."

At the end of Yin and the beginning of Mao the next morning, the sky was only getting dark, and only Zeng Bu went to court in a sedan chair.Mrs. Wei sent her husband away, yawned as she walked through the corridor, and was about to go to sleep again, but found that Mo Yunxiao was fully dressed and was about to go out with a scroll.

Mrs. Wei rubbed her eyes, hurried up to meet her and asked, "He Lu? Where are you going?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled and said, "I'm going to meet an old friend."

"Old friend?" Mrs. Wei looked up at the still dark sky and said, "Why is it so early?"

"It can't be early, I still have a lot of things to do today. Yuru, you have dark circles under your eyes, go back to sleep." After she finished speaking, she smiled and continued bypassing Mrs. Wei.

Chu Yuanwai was also sleepy.He hasn't had a good night's sleep since he heard that Mo's house was raided.If it's just about Mo Yunxiao's life and death, he doesn't really care about it, but what he cares about is whether Mo Yunxiao and the Cao Gang supported by him will be affected.

And if only the canal was affected, it would not be a big loss to him.But the real big loss is a big business done by the Cao Gang, which is the "Ghost Fan Tower".

The "Ghost Fan Tower" was built by people from the Cao Gang, but it was Chu Yuanwai who gave financial support behind it.So he was very afraid, he was afraid that because of the copying of Mo's family, there would be a series of chain reactions.He was afraid that the city gate would catch fire and the tragedy of Chi Yu would happen to him, and he was even more afraid that Mo Yunxiao would confess himself, which would be a huge trouble.

These days, Qiu Feng and Zhang Chun didn't come to his place anymore.Even if he wanted to inquire about some news, he couldn't get it, so he became more anxious.

At this time, he was sitting alone on the stargazing tower, looking at the still-awakened Tokyo city.

He watched the drowsiness hit him, and when the dream was about to unfold in front of his eyes, a servant suddenly woke him up: "Master, Miss Mo is here!"

Member Chu was startled, and hurriedly asked, "Who's here?"

"Miss Mo." The servant said.

Member Chu turned pale with shock, and hurriedly called, "Which Miss Mo?"

"Of course it's Miss Mo Yunxiao." The servant replied.

"Ah?" The shock was no small matter, he fell directly from his seat to the ground. "Ouch!" The servant was also startled, and hurriedly helped him up.

"Mo Yunxiao! Mo Yunxiao! She...wasn't she locked up?" He panicked and said, "She must have come to take her life! She must have come to take her life!"

Mo Yunxiao "thumped" came upstairs.She took off the veil and said with a smile, "I'm not dead yet, how could I come here to ask for my life?"

"Ah! You..." Member Chu was even more frightened when he saw her, and hurriedly said, "Don't come here, don't come here..."

But Mo Yunxiao approached step by step, and said: "Mr. Wai, I brought you some good things to show you. Why do you reject people for thousands of miles?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled like a flower, and her tone was the same as before.

But at this time, a stroke of sunlight pierced through the clouds and passed through, shining on Mo Yunxiao's body.Member Chu could see clearly that Mo Yunxiao in the sun looked like a god, with a golden border around his body.

He calmed down a bit, but still stood up with lingering fear, and circled around Mo Yunxiao twice.Mo Yunxiao just stood there straight, without moving.She just glanced at her eyes and asked, "Wai Yuan, what do you want to see?"

"Oh, you are really still alive." Member Chu stroked his chest and complained, "Miss Mo, you scared me to death. Didn't I hear that your whole family was raided? How did you get out?"

"I would rather touch Kaifeng mansion than Mo Yunxiao." She turned her eyes and said with a smile, "How can a small Kaifeng mansion trap me?"

Member Chu laughed, and said, "Miss is really talented. But you came to me so early in the morning, you must have something important to do?"

"It's not that important." Mo Yunxiao took two steps away, sat on the bamboo chair, raised the scroll and said, "It's just that I have a painting for outsiders to appreciate."

"Oh?" Member Chu looked at her suspiciously, then walked over and took the painting.Two servants also came forward and opened the painting.

Member Chu took a closer look, and couldn't help being surprised.This is a landscape painting with bamboo in the center of the picture.These bamboo paintings are extremely arrogant, and all of them are looking up to the sky.The bamboos in the painting are of different heights and well-proportioned, and it can be seen that the author has a lot of calligraphy skills, so he painted these bamboos very vividly.

Chu Yuanwai watched carefully, his eyes seemed to have fallen into the painting and could not be pulled out.

Seeing it, Mo Yunxiao was both happy and ashamed.She was happy that she came to "extort money" to be successful, but she was ashamed that the original artist of this painting was Zheng Banqiao, a talented scholar in the Qing Dynasty, which made her feel a strong sense of guilt.

"Good painting! Great painting!" Chu Yuanwai couldn't help clapping his hands in amazement: "Whose calligraphy is this?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled and said: "This picture is called 'Mozhu Picture', so it must belong to a senior expert. Although my house was copied, I'm glad this picture wasn't searched. I'll hide it as well. If I can’t stop, I plan to come and dedicate it to Yuanwai Chu.”

Member Chu was elated, and hurriedly said, "Miss Mo really thinks highly of me. At this time, you can still remember me. Hurry up, serve tea to the girl!"

"The member is elegant, and my younger sister knows it." Mo Yunxiao said: "The member also knows that my family has suffered a disaster, and the whole family has no food and clothing. If the member can help me some money, the younger sister is grateful Endless."

Hearing this, Yuanwai Chu's heart tightened, and his fluttering mind also calmed down.

"Ms. Mo has a lot of friends. I heard that the wife of Zeng Shumi and you are good friends." Chu Yuanwai asked: "Why don't you go to borrow money from her?"

"Outsiders should know that Privy Councilor Zeng is a member of the imperial court. I am a family member of a sinner, so they naturally want to avoid suspicion." Mo Yunxiao said, "Now they are avoiding me for fear that they won't make it, so how can they help me?"

Member Chu thought about it carefully, and then asked, "Then how did the girl escape from the tiger's mouth?"

Mo Yunxiao's complexion darkened, and he asked back, "What? What do the staff suspect of me? Afraid that I won't pay back the money I borrowed?"

"No, no, no." Chu Yuanwai sighed, and became embarrassed: "Girl, don't blame me, it's just that I am promoted to Xiaomin, if I make a wrong step, I'm afraid it will be a disaster!"

"Hehe." Mo Yunxiao stood up and said, "Does anyone know who is going to copy my house this time?"

"I heard it's Qiu Yuhou."

"That's right, it's him." Mo Yunxiao paused, and then said, "Isn't it just a matter of what he says if I come out or not?"

"Ah? This..." Chu Yuanwai was still like falling into the clouds, not knowing why.

Mo Yunxiao forced her to come forward and said, "Tell me honestly, it's not me who came to borrow money this time, but Qiu Feng. He wants to rescue me, so naturally he has to go up and down. The little girl showed her sincerity, so she brought calligraphy and painting in person. This time. If Yuanwai refuses to believe it, then I have no choice but to go back."

She said that she was going to collect her paintings.Chu Yuanwai hurriedly shouted: "Slow down!" Mo Yunxiao stopped walking and listened to him continue.

Chu Yuanwai pondered for a moment, and said, "I know that Miss Mo has great powers, but recently my money has not been able to turn around..."

Mo Yunxiao suddenly turned around, smiled and said to him: "You have to think twice, you should know that behind me is now Qiu Yuhou. Behind Qiu Yuhou is Master Yin Sheng of Kaifeng Mansion. And Master Sheng's Behind is Mr. Zai Zhizhang. Behind this Mr. Zhang..."

"It's an official!" Chu Yuanwai interrupted her and waved his hands again and again: "Okay, okay, I understand. Otherwise, according to the law of my dynasty, the crime of fleeing will never be forgiven. Miss Mo can stand in front of me , is already a clear proof. All right, I bought this painting, Miss. I'm afraid five hundred guan is not enough, I will add another two hundred guan, and I hope the girl will not be offended."

Mo Yunxiao smiled faintly, and said, "You're being polite. If you say you borrowed it, you have to return it. This painting is a gift from Qiu Yuhou, and it's for Yuanwai."

After she finished speaking, she ordered the servant: "Go and get a pen and paper, I want to make a written note."

The servant got the nod and acquiesce from Yuanwai Chu, and went to get the things.

Mo Yunxiao wrote the document with a few "shua shua" strokes, and finally signed it with Qiu Feng's name.Chu Yuanwai also added his own name.

"Okay, thank you for your generosity. After three months, Qiu Yuhou will come to pay back the money." Mo Yunxiao turned and left after saying that.

(End of this chapter)