This year is a very important year for Lin Jinrong, the third family of the Lin family, the Tao family, and Lin Shiquan.
In spring, Tao bought a large area of sloping land, planted saplings, and hired someone to take care of it. At the same time, the Tao family also bought a large amount of sloping land and planted saplings. A few people in Pingzhou and Qingzhou followed suit, and a very small number of people in Pingzhou and Qingzhou followed suit.
People sneered, and most people took a wait-and-see attitude. Among those who followed the trend, Mr. Lu was among them.
At the summer solstice, Lin Shiquan and the Tao family, together with the merchants surnamed Mei, sent a batch of winter wheat to the northern border. At that time, the grain worth 20,000 yuan was falsely estimated to be 100,000 yuan, and they went to the Thirteen Mountains of Huainan to collect the tea Yin.
The tea was transported back to Taiming Mansion for sale. This time, it was not a secret, nor was it someone who was the smartest to predict it first, but Lin Shiquan, who was keen on spending time in tea shops, restaurants and hotels, was well-informed, and then relied on the young man's words
Passionate, dare to speak and act, not afraid of hardship, able to endure hardship, Lin Jinrong stepped in to coordinate and provide sufficient funds to make it happen.
Among the three prominent families in Pingzhou, the rest of the Lin family have treacherous intentions but no courage, so they can only swallow their saliva; the Wu family has just been hit by Wu Xiang's exam incident, and there is no one in charge in the family, so they voluntarily give up; the Lu family, for some unknown reason, remains on the sidelines.
Attitude, never interfered.
In the fall, a grocery store was added to the Tao store run by Lin Shiquan. Tie Erniu, who had been following Lin Shiquan, was promoted to the manager of the grocery store because he was serious and responsible and could endure hardships. No one noticed.
, Tao Fengtang went to Jiangnan alone to open a shop. Tao Shunqin sat at the rear and continuously sent high-quality and low-price perfumes, furs and other items to Jiangnan's shop. Tao Fengtang also continuously sent tea, silk, and embroidery from Jiangnan.
Lin Shiquan and Qingzhou Tao's shop.
At the winter solstice, after a whole year, the canal and dam of the Zhujiang River have begun to take shape, and it is expected that the water from the Tianhe River will be released to the fields in April next year.
The situation is excellent.
When the wintersweet blossoms were blooming, Lin Jinrong looked at the account books in front of her with joy, and was very satisfied with her achievements in the past year. Not to mention that the increasing amount of money in her hands made her feel more secure and satisfied than ever before. Let's just say that she was successful.
He persuaded Tao Fengtang and then persuaded Tao Shunqin to go to Jiangnan to buy real estate and open a business. This was a huge success that allowed people to sleep peacefully at night until dawn.
It was during this season of fragrant winter plum blossoms that a rumor quickly spread across Pingzhou like a breeze. At first, someone said that the recent fortunes of the Lin family's third family and the Tao family were all due to Lin Shiquan, who had made so much money.
They didn't even give him any money, so it wasn't worth it for him; but someone immediately said that in fact, they had all guessed wrong. Lin Shiquan was just the chief steward hired by the third room of the Lin family, and the real person had been hiding behind the scenes.
There is no shortage of rumors in this world, nor is there any shortage of people who are very curious, desperately want to pry into people's privacy, or who simply have no purpose and just like to listen and like to talk. When the rumors spread, all
Everyone suddenly realized that the person who had been hiding behind the scenes and making plans was not Tao, Mrs. Lin San, who had always been bad-tempered and incompetent in her early years; nor was she Tao Shunqin, who had always been low-key and steady despite being rich and famous in the early years;
Lin Shiquan, a poor young man with nothing, suddenly appeared from the countryside. He was the fourth girl of the Lin family.
As a result, the curious people had infinite interest and endless speculation about Miss Lin Si, who was raised in a boudoir but was so powerful. Countless versions were circulated in the market. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know Miss Lin Si’s maiden name. Miss Lin Si
This title is enough for people to talk about it repeatedly. Rumors spread so fast that Mrs. Lin, Lin Shiquan and others were caught off guard.
When the rumors spread to the Lin family, Lin Jinrong was sitting calmly in front of the embroidery frame under the window, facing the warm winter sunshine, embroidering her dowry with her own hands. The pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water on the bright red satin was lively and bright, and she had no trace of anything.
The superfluous feeling is just to try her best to complete a perfect embroidery. Because for a long time in the future, she will face this pattern every day and rely on it to decorate the facade to tell others how smart and virtuous she is.
woman.
Lychee looked at Lin Jinrong's quiet and gentle profile and deft movements, and swallowed her words as she reached her lips. She really couldn't bear to tell Lin Jinrong what was happening outside. But any lady who is so strong and needs face knows that she is being exposed outside.
If speculations and conjectures are circulated repeatedly like this, I'm afraid she will die of shame and anger. Lychee is in an infinite dilemma. After giving Lin Jinrong three cups of hot tea and a basin of charcoal, she still can't speak out, and there is no way for anyone to do this for her.
One thing - Aunt Gui has long been crying until her eyes are swollen to a slit, what else can she expect?
It was Lin Jinrong who spoke up: "Lizhi, tell me or let someone else tell me, it's your choice." From the moment Lizhi walked in, she could already feel Lizhi's evasive eyes and hesitation about speaking. No.
It would be a good thing, she understood this clearly, but no matter how bad things were, could they be worse than what she was about to face? No.
Of course, Lizhi chose her to tell Lin Jinrong: "I don't know who killed a thousand swordsmen, talking nonsense outside..." Lizhi spoke very carefully, trying to choose nice words to say, and was even ready to stop talking at any time.
He went to comfort Lin Jinrong, but Lin Jinrong just kept holding a cup of tea, looking at the sunshine outside the window, listening quietly, without even saying a word in the middle, as if he was listening to someone else's story.
Lychee gritted her teeth and finished speaking in one breath, but she could only say one simple sentence: "What did the family say? Did your wife cry?"
How could she not cry? For a family like them, sometimes a rumor could ruin a marriage and a life. There was nothing Tao could do, otherwise he would have stabbed the person who gossiped alive.
Lychee sighed: "The old lady called my wife. Girl, you have to think openly..."
"I can think about it, and so will my wife. Such rumors will stop on their own after a while." Lin Jinrong was very calm. In the past, she would have been hard-pressed to think about it, but that's not necessarily the case now. She is just the daughter of a scholarly family.
She knew how to do business, and her name was just passed around a few times. It wasn't like she had done something scandalous or scandalous.
First, she didn't make a public appearance. At most, she gave Tao, Tao Shunqin and others a few ideas that made everyone rich; second, she was in charge of the accounts and the shop, and everyone in the family knew that no one said anything inappropriate about this.
The reason why people are making a fuss about her now is just because she has not yet left the government and there are many taboos. If she is a married woman, it is still a great thing to be good at managing dowry.
Everything she has been able to do and need to do in the past few years has basically been done smoothly. What is she dissatisfied with? Whatever you gain, you must lose. You have to think openly and be content. But it is really funny to say it.
, she hid it carefully at first, but actually took great risks when she exchanged gold and silver, bought salt-alkali land, imported food, and bought and sold fragrant medicines. No one was watching her, and everyone was spontaneously doing it.
The credit was given to Tao Shunqin; but in the past two years, when she was steadily moving forward step by step, she attracted people's attention. There were indeed many things in the world that she couldn't figure out.
"Girl, the old lady asks you to go to Tingtao House immediately." Yingtao came in worriedly and said in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "Someone from the Lu family is here."
The Lu family sent someone to the door so quickly at this time, and Mrs. Lin immediately summoned Lin Jinrong. You can guess the reason without even thinking about it. Lizhi's face suddenly turned white, and his lips trembled.
He held Lin Jinrong's hand worriedly and wanted to say a few words of comfort, but couldn't utter a complete sentence: "Girl...you...slave..."
"Don't be afraid. What's there to be afraid of?" Lin Jinrong's voice had a strange and gentle soothing effect: "Go get me a cloak and shoes for going out."
Lychee and Cherry didn't understand why she was so calm, but this was obviously not the time to think about this. Lin Jinrong soon finished dressing, and she even looked in the mirror before going out.
Along the way, the eyes of the girls and women they met were twinkling. Some were sympathetic, some were indifferent, some were gloating, and there were all kinds of things. Lin Jinrong felt that he had never been like this in his life.
Calm, she can even calmly analyze everyone's expressions and eyes when greeting her, what kind of thoughts they represent, whether they like her, why they don't like her, and who is the person behind them.
At this moment, the road to Tingtaoju was too close for Lychee and Yingtao, but it was simply too far for Lin Jinrong. She wished she could walk to Tingtaoju in two or three steps to see who the person who came from the Lu family was in a hurry.
What to say? If it weren't for the fact that she didn't want people to think she was panicking and was afraid of losing this marriage, she would have just rushed away.
No matter how far the road is, there is always a time to reach it; no matter how close the road is, there is still a distance.
Lin Jinrong finally saw the door of Tingtao Residence.
In the courtyard of Tingtao's residence, there stood a thin and tall man wearing a white ramie shirt worn exclusively by Jiuzi, with a ribbon inside. Hearing the sound, he slowly turned his head, his eyes as dark as a pool looking straight.
He looked directly into Lin Jinrong's eyes.
It turned out that he was the one who came here so quickly! He was really fast. He rushed back from Mr. Zhu’s house, then hurried back home to put on such a dazzling outfit, and then rushed here so quickly. Why?
Can't stand such rumors? Can't stand such things?
Lin Jinrong looked at Lu Yan, raised the corners of his lips casually and showed a smile, and then walked past him gently like a breeze, stepped steadily on the Ruyi Duo, and stopped in front of Mrs. Lin's door, calmly
He knocked on the door calmly.
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