Silly couple dote on their wives

Chapter 540 The Secret of the Imperial Merchant

"What, you want me to be a coolie?" Upon hearing the work on the pier, Young Master Biao's face collapsed. He stood up and accused Meng Ruoqing of being ruthless with his eyes.

"En?" Meng Ruoqing glanced over with her phoenix eyes, and the young master Biao immediately faltered: "It's okay, it's okay, isn't it just a coolie? I'll do it, young master, I have plenty of strength!"

"Maozheng tomorrow morning, if you don't see you at the pier, you know the consequences." Meng Ruoqing warned the young master Biao before walking to the general's wife: "Mother, Yan'er is at home, I am worried, so I will go back first."

"Okay." The general's wife nodded and sent Meng Ruoqing out of the mansion, and waited until the carriage was gone before turning back to the mansion.

Master Biao looked at the general's wife sadly, hoping that the general's wife would make the decision to save him from going to the pier to do coolies, but the general's wife just glanced at Master Biao, then turned and left: "I'll go see Qingying."

"Yes!" Ji Ruoxuan replied, and then followed in the footsteps of the general's wife to the backyard. When the young master saw that Ji Ruoxuan ignored him, he immediately stepped forward and grabbed Ji Ruoxuan's hand: "My good cousin, you can do it All right, help me."

"My sister has always said that she is right, and the one who can be her master is also at the border, so you know." Ji Ruoxuan looked at the deflated look of Young Biao, and couldn't help but want to laugh out loud in his heart, but he still had a serious look on his face.

Hearing Ji Ruoxuan's words, Young Master Biao seemed to have seen his own future, he sighed sadly, and even the steps back to the backyard became much heavier.

As soon as Meng Ruoqing came home, Uncle Zhong greeted him: "Madam, you are back, Mr. Qian has been waiting for you in the flower hall for a long time."

"Has Qian Baisheng returned to Beijing?" Meng Ruoqing stopped in her tracks, raised her eyebrows, and asked Uncle Zhong beside her.

"They said they arrived this morning, and they rushed over from the wine shop." Uncle Zhong opened his umbrella and said to Meng Ruoqing as he accompanied Meng Ruoqing to the mansion.

"Oh." Meng Ruoqing nodded, and talked with Uncle Zhong for a while, the two of them quickly entered the flower hall, Uncle Zhong put away the umbrella and left.

"Ruoqing, have you taken over the position of Imperial Merchant?" Seeing Meng Ruoqing coming in, Qian Baisheng said immediately.

Hearing this, Meng Ruoqing frowned slightly, at this time it was clear that the appointment was made in Juxian Building today, how could even Qian Baisheng know about it?

Seeing Meng Ruoqing's puzzled face, Qian Baisheng said: "The imperial list has already been posted, why don't you know?"

"Now I know." Meng Ruoqing replied while thinking about Murong You's meaning: "Who are the people who compete for the Imperial Merchant?"

"The Hu family in the north of the city, the Ximen family in Jinling, and the Luo family in the east of the city." Qian Baisheng paused and continued, "I wrote to Zhu Wenyuan, and Zhu Wenyuan listened to your wishes."

"Wait, the Ximen you mentioned is the Ximen of the current imperial concubine?" Meng Ruoqing couldn't help asking when she caught the word Ximen from Qian Baisheng's words.

"Exactly." Qian Baisheng nodded, "I thought that the Ximen family would belong to the Imperial Merchant, but I didn't expect it to fall on you."

"There seems to be something I don't know about it." Since she was the daughter of the Ximen family, why did she become the adoptive daughter of her grandfather?

"I heard that Ximen Yue married from Mr. Li's mansion as Mr. Li's adoptive daughter?" Qian Baisheng seemed to be aware of the problem, and asked Meng Ruoqing with a frown: "Do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know either." Meng Ruoqing shrugged her shoulders, expressing that she didn't know anything about it, and now she could only ask her grandfather what was going on.

"By the way, does your Qian family have power in the northern border?" Meng Ruoqing didn't plan to take care of these things at this time, and the most important thing now was the military supplies in the northern border.

"No, although there was no fear of war in the northern border before, there were too many bandits and food was an eye-catching thing. My family couldn't afford it, so I didn't think about developing there."

Qian Baisheng shook his head, with a serious expression on his face. Now that Meng Ruoqing is an imperial merchant, he still has to consider the Northern Territory: "But I remember that Ximen's family has some contacts there, it seems that their ancestors made their fortune from the Northern Territory of."

"That's interesting." Meng Ruoqing smiled slightly, as if she already knew some reasons.

"The Ximen family must have lost their position as an imperial merchant. It is impossible to ask them to help us develop trade in the northern border." Meng Ruoqing raised her head and thought.

"I heard that Patriarch Ximen is the one who must take revenge. Not only did he fail to get the position of the Imperial Merchant, but he also lost a daughter. Thank God for not making trouble for us." Qian Baisheng stared at Meng Ruoqing with wide-eyed eyes. Thinking that Meng Ruoqing's heart is so big.

"Soldiers come to block the water and cover it with earth. I, Meng Ruoqing, have never been afraid of anyone!" Meng Ruoqing didn't think these problems were so difficult to solve: "You came back from Jinling? How is the old lady?"

"It's good. I have the strength to chase after me and urge me to get married." Qian Baisheng felt a headache when he mentioned his grandmother.

"Where's your restless stepmother? It's not a good thing that your two families live too close!" Meng Ruoqing suddenly remembered that Mrs. Qian, and she couldn't help frowning and asked.

"With my grandmother around, we probably won't be able to turn the tide." Qian Baisheng's eyes were a little cold, looking at the blue and white stone slabs on the ground, and said quietly.

"That's good." Meng Ruoqing still believed in Madam Qian's ability, she nodded, and talked about other things with Qian Baisheng.

As soon as Murong You posted the imperial list, Ximen Yue hurried over: "The concubine sees the emperor."

"Stay flat." Murong You's ink pen slid across the memorial, without raising her head, she avoided Ximen Yue's gift, and then asked: "My concubine came to see me, is there something wrong?"

"Your majesty, why did the position of imperial merchant fall to the Wei family?" Seeing Murong You's impatient expression, Ximen Yue's heart tightened, and a slight bitterness spread: "Didn't the emperor already assign the position of imperial merchant to the Wei family?" Did you promise it to my dad?"

"How can you, a woman, meddle in important national affairs?" Hearing what Ximen Yue said, Murong You became a little unhappy. He put down his vermilion pen and looked at Ximen Yue coldly.

"The concubine knows that women have no right to participate in politics, but the emperor, don't forget that General Wei of the Wei family is now far away in the north, and only Mrs. Wei is left in the family, but she is also a woman, isn't she?" Ximen Yue frowned. For some reason, she felt that the man in front of her was different, he was no longer the person she saw that day.

"You are different from her." Speaking of Meng Ruoqing, Murong You's expression softened a little, he lowered his head, and covered up the inadvertent warmth in his eyes, so as not to let others know.

(End of this chapter)