businesswoman's wife

Xu Xiuyi showed her face today. In fact, this gift from the grandfather of the Wei family came out of her sincerity, but she also wanted this kind of effect.

Outsiders know very little about her, most of them are that she is a widow, the granddaughter of Duke Huguo, and her husband would rather like a Qinglou oiran than touch her.

What's more, she is now in front of the Su family's home, forcing the second master of the Su family away to set up another door. Now the two pharmacies are facing each other. From the outside, the two pharmacies and the security hall are like a city. On the contrary. The Baoning Hall is a very quiet and lonely place.

Bao Ning Tang, under the pressure of Bao Ning Tang's price, did not do well, which is why Xu Xiuyi wanted to show her face in such a high-profile manner.

Su Jinyi's business is good. The price war is on the one hand. On the other hand, he has a wide network. He has been in charge of the counter for many years.

On the contrary, Xu Xiuyi was a woman, and Su Jinye was timid. Their connections were too thin, which made them lose to Su Jinyi in many things.

The simplest thing is that the last time the price of medicinal materials raised the price and forced Xu Xiuyi to almost nowhere, was it not the "blessing" that "entrusted" Su Jinyi's vast network of contacts.

Xu Xiuyi thought about it a long time ago. It is necessary to open a business and have friends all over the world. She also wants to build a network of contacts for Baoningtang. She can always find someone to help her and not be forced to. On the way.

The youngest who can come to the Wei family to celebrate their birthday today is also a country gentleman. They are all rich and decent people. Xu Xiuyi won over the old lady of the Wei family with one cake, and convinced the wealthy businessmen who were doing a good job.

Afterwards, the conversation was very enjoyable. Xu Xiuyi had excellent eloquence and a beautiful appearance. Everyone was willing to chat with her. She was also ready to distribute business cards one by one. Naturally, this was already done. .

I saw that it was a delicate piece of copper, the four corners of the copper piece were rounded, and the address, business scope, and Xu Xiuyi's name of Baoningtang were engraved on the copper piece by hand.

This is strange and unheard of.

Xu Xiuyi is to bring modern business concepts to the ancient times.

Business cards, the first thing in the opening, are naturally indispensable.

Her quirky things made everyone even more impressed by her. After a birthday banquet, everyone who had chatted with her would remember her firmly.

Not only because of that beautiful face, extraordinary conversation, but also her ingenuity many times.

After the banquet was over, when Xu Xiuyi took Miss Qing away, Wei Jinniang personally brought her to the door, reaching out and gently stroking Miss Qing's head.

"I like it when you deliver it to the purse."

Su Qingying bowed her head shyly, and Xu Xiuyi thanked her: "As long as aunt likes it."

"Third grandmother, there is one thing I really have to say to you. I'm afraid that your list will be delayed for a few days."

Xu Xiuyi felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, but she still had a smile on her face: "Then how many days will it take?"

"It's hard to say. I don't know why, but the silk and satin shops in a radius of [-] miles refused to sell cloth to us. So did the needle and thread shops. I used to have a short thread, and now I can't buy it. Take a look at Shuzhou."

The brocade in Shuzhou is the best in the world, but it takes at least three or five days to come and go, which is quite fast.

In this way, the goods she ordered will be delayed for at least seven or eight days.

She then said: "Can you give me the embroidered ones first, and I will pay the money first."

Jin Niang smiled and nodded: "It's half done, then I'll send someone to your Baoningtang tomorrow."

Xu Xiuyi thanked her, said goodbye to Jinniang, and took Su Qingying home.

She slept in the middle of the night, and she always felt very uneasy in her daze. She didn't know why she was uneasy. She opened her eyes and couldn't fall asleep. She kept thinking about Jinniang's words. Jinniang said that silk and silk threads in a radius of [-] miles were all It's sold out, how could it be such a coincidence?

In this season, summer is approaching, and there is less fabric used for clothes. In summer, few people wear embroidered clothes. They are all dressed in a cool and refreshing way. The Su family also has distant relatives who run a silk and satin village. Zhuang's distant relative once came to ask her father-in-law for some money, saying that the business was not good in the summer.

But why this time, satin silk thread will be out of stock?

She sat up, feeling even more uneasy.

Outside the window, a dull thunder really startled her.

The wind was blowing, and the half-open window was crackling. She got up, closed the window, stood at the window, and vaguely saw a red light dyeing half of the sky in the south of the city, as if it was on fire.

Another dull thunder, she hurriedly closed the window, took a breath, and went back to sleep.

*

"Grandma, it's not good."

Early in the morning, Jin Yu rushed in with a start.

Xu Xiuyi didn't sleep well last night, so her head was a little heavy now, and she opened her eyes in confusion and looked at Jinyu.

"what's up?"

"Jinniang Xiuzhuang sent someone to say that the goods have not been sent to us."

"what?"

Xu Xiuyi sat up from the bed.

Jin Yu's voice was full of tears: "Grandma, you've been looking forward to it for so many days, but last night there was a fire that burned the entire Jinniang Embroidery Village to ashes, and everyone from the government passed by, saying it was struck by thunder. "

"thunder."

Xu Xiuyi suddenly remembered the red light in the south of the city when she woke up last night, is it all Jinniang Xiu Village?

She had been restless all night yesterday, always feeling that something was going to happen.

She was busy getting up, and Jin Yu came up to wait on her to change her clothes and make up, and the two went to Jinniangxiu Village.

Jinniang Embroidery Village is a mess, the wooden house, now only the mud walls are burned, and a few surviving embroidery frames have been snatched out, but all the silk threads on it melted into a coil under the high temperature Son.

The Jinniang Embroidered Village signboard with gold characters on the blue background has a gold-plated frame left after burning. Because the lower capital is plated with thick gold, it hugs this frame.

Yesterday, Yu Shufen was still full of spring, but today she was crying with tears in her eyes. She was unable to stand still with the help of several maids.

This is the family business of the Wei family. Although it is said that the craftsmanship is in the hands of people, this fire has burned all the hard work.

How could Xu Xiuyi be so embarrassed to ask about her own batch of goods? It's better to die like this. She sighed and went up to Yu Shufen and said, "Mrs. Wei, if something like this happens, you have to hold on."

After speaking, I felt blank.

That Wei Shufen was so heartbroken that she only cried, she couldn't listen to what others said, and she heard her say: "Our old Wei family, this is about to end, third grandma, we can't make your order, you That deposit, we'll return it to you another day."

"No rush, no rush."

How can you not be in a hurry, but everyone is in such a situation, what can she do, she can only see if she can entrust another embroidery shop.

In fact, this list was not the key to her victory. She never thought of doing anything overnight, just wanted to build the reputation of the pharmacy one step at a time.

Obviously, the first step was guessed on the water, and there was a ripple in the fluttering, and half of the footprints did not fall.

Back at Su's house, Xu Xiuyi was upset.

She always felt that something was wrong.

The delivery was agreed, but the goods were destroyed overnight.

And contacted that the satin and silk threads were sold out, she always felt that everything was not so simple.

It was night, so she changed into black men's clothes. Since the last time she was molested, she walked alone at night, and she no longer dared to pretend to be a daughter.

After changing her clothes and holding a lantern, she went out from the back door and walked towards the burned ruins of Jinniang Xiu Village.

Jin Yu said, and the government verified it, saying that the fire was a natural disaster.

But the thunder just sounded yesterday, and the south of the city was already full of fire. Although the Jinniang Embroidery Village is made of cloth, it is not dry this season. Can a thunderstorm start such a big fire in an instant?

After thinking about it, she felt that something was wrong, and she brought the lantern and unknowingly reached the pile of ruins.

Because of the house fire, the surrounding shops were also affected, so there was no one in the street early on. Standing outside the frame of the ruins, Xu Xiuyi started to look for clues inch by inch.

Her nose wasn't particularly bright, but it wasn't bad, and it smelled of oil.

Apart from rapeseed oil and lard, there was no gasoline in this era.

In the nose, there is a smell of rapeseed oil.

She searched slowly in the pile of charcoal ashes, and found another pine ball.

It's just these, she has already concluded that this fire must be man-made.

Because it rained heavily before the fire was set, the rapeseed oil was not completely burned, but was washed into the gully by the rain, leaving a smell.

And the burnt black pine balls kept the shape of the pine balls because they were not crushed.

Obviously, it was arson, but she just glanced at it and found out the real cause of the fire. Why did the government talk about natural disasters?

The yamen under the emperor's feet do things like this?

Xu Xiuyi straightened her waist, and in her hand was the pine ball that was burnt to the point of blackness. Because she was pinching it, it was already broken, and some scum fell off. It was incomplete, but it could be seen that it was a pine ball.

Looking at the sky, it was already very late, but the arson case of Jinniang Xiu Village was also related to her batch of goods. Even if it was late, she would have to go to the government.

After she made up her mind, she turned around and walked away, suddenly a tingling pain in her back, a blackness in front of her eyes, her body softened, and she lost consciousness.

*

Xu Xiuyi woke up and was in Su Mansion.

Everything last night was like a dream. If it wasn't for the dull pain in her back, she might really think it was a dream.

It was very dark outside, and the lights were on in her room. Jinyu Yinyu was not in the room. There was a person standing beside the bed.

Xu Xiuyi was taken aback and blurted out, "Who?"

The man turned around and it was Su Jinyuan.

Seeing him wake up, Su Jinyuan was very happy.

"Xiuyi, you are awake."

what happened?

"Why am I here?"

Su Jinyuan hurriedly said, "Are you going to investigate why Jinniangxiu Village caught fire?"

"how do you know?"

"Don't interfere in this matter, the more you know about many things, the better."

Xu Xiuyi frowned: "What do you mean?"

"This is someone's personal vendetta. You are stupid as a member of the Wei family. I really don't know that this is arson, but..." Su Jinyuan lowered his voice, "...for various reasons, I can't explain it to you today. Knowing your temperament, when I came out to persuade you at the time, you would definitely not listen to me, only if I knocked you out and brought it home, does it hurt?"

Su Jinyuan reached out to rub Xu Xiuyi's back, but Xu Xiuyi instinctively avoided.

Su Jinyuan was there with his hands empty, his expression a little hurt: "How long are you going to blame me?"

Xu Xiuyi didn't want to discuss this topic with him: "Since there is no time to explain it today, you should let me know who set the fire."

Su Jinyuan lowered his voice and leaned into Xu Xiuyi's ear: "People in the palace, don't be too busy, I'll come back tomorrow night, it's almost dawn, I'm leaving."

Xu Xiuyi was stunned there, and suddenly thought of what Yu Shufen said that our Wei family is coming to an end. She didn't think much about it at the time, but now that she thinks about it carefully, the Wei family has a strong family, a Jinniangxiu Village, and it's easy to make a comeback. Done.

Listening to Su Jinyuan now, I understand a little bit.

Simply, Su Jinyuan brought her back, she was not impulsive, otherwise her Su family might end.

"I see."

She agreed.

Su Jinyuan reached out and stroked her hair, his eyes were deep, and he said, "Second brother, don't worry, I will help you secretly, if you have time these days, go see the second sister-in-law, in fact, the second sister-in-law used to treat me too. It's not bad, I moved the money on the counter, she was afraid that my father would punish me, and she helped me to make it up every time, but now, she is not very good."

Su Jinyuan still recites the favor, but Xu Xiuyi's heart is transparent. In the past, Su Jiang's did this just to please the old lady. Who doesn't know that the old lady loves Su Jinyuan, and she can't bear to be punished by half a point for her baby son.

And the master of the Su family is a strict person. Su Jinyuan embezzled money. If Master Su knew about it, he would have to be beaten. Therefore, Su Jiang's family would use private money to give Su Jinyuan no loophole. If Master Su found out, let the old lady Su. distressed.

"understood."

She just wanted Su Jinyuan to leave quickly, she just answered whatever he said.

Su Jinyuan smiled at her slightly, stretched out his hand and took out a piece of jade from his purse, the whole body was transparent, the quality of the jade was excellent, and he handed it to her: "Xinda baby, you go get a piece of jewelry, and these, you Take it too and put it back in our small vault."

It's a stack of banknotes.

Xu Xiuyi was slightly surprised: "Where did you come from?"

"I won the stone bet. In the past, my father didn't tell me to play and said that I would lose nine out of ten. In fact, I am very good at this. I earn these things, and I will earn more for you in the future, Xiu Yi. ,wait for my return."

Such affection, and Su Jinyuan, who has a cold memory, really don't equate at all.

She made some mistakes, but Su Jinyuan suddenly pressed him over and kissed her face. When she reacted and wanted to push, he got up by himself, gave Xu Xiuyi a reluctant look, and left.

He kissed her, but Xu Xiuyi only felt that the half of her face was like being splashed with sulfuric acid.

It's such a hard thing to be kissed by someone you don't like.

Thinking about it like this, I miss An Chengshao a little, and I don't know how good he is.

- off topic -

Momoda, I'm in a bad mood, I'm in a bad mood, let's be a little bit more, be a little bit more, forgive me!