"After this incident, Shan'er's health is getting better. Let's... let's consummate the marriage..."
On a rainy night, Su Tan'er choked out these words. "Not long after, Ning Yi nodded.
"Uh... cough, that's not what I meant, but..." He smiled, "Yeah."
The words were drowned in the late night rain. When the breeze blew in, the candle shadows swayed. Such expressions did not take much courage for Su Tan'er. She lay there, stunned and silent for a while. Originally
A large part of her illness was due to psychological factors. After speaking like this, she could probably reduce the pressure in her heart a lot. But after a moment, maybe because she thought of something, she bit her lower lip gently.
.
"If... if things don't go smoothly this time, will my husband and the guild..."
"Will it be anything?"
"Could it be..." Su Tan'er hesitated to speak with some embarrassment, and then finally shook her head, "Forget it, I won't say anything anymore."
"Disappointing", Ning Yi looked at her and thought for a while, and then he probably guessed some ideas and shook his head, "I didn't say this for the good of the Su family. Things are not going well. Things between us, anyway.
That's it...and it's actually easy to get over this matter."
Su Tan'er nodded, and her expression relaxed slightly. After a while, she smiled awkwardly at the second half of Ning Yi's sentence: "My husband is not clear about what happened this time..."
"It's clear." Ning Yi looked back, "I roughly checked the accounts of the past three years, and the foundation of the Su family is still stable. No matter who the opponent is." It is indeed very vicious for them to stab someone and bite them back, but they can
It’s not the customers who have the effect. The Su family’s business is spread all over the country.” No one would really talk about the character of the boss in Jiangning before entering the store. The only way to make the difference is to have closer partners and suppliers.
The Su family will be shaken in this regard, but compared to this method, it is of little significance. With the foundation of the Su family, it is difficult for the Su family to fall directly because of the involvement of certain links. At most, it will lose a small part.
. To have a practical effect, it will mainly be near Jiangning. In the near future, the people who will be most affected are the imperial merchants. After the matter is confirmed, the government will consider the relationship between reputation and not cooperate with the Su family..."
"He is the Royal Merchant..." Su Tan'er murmured and repeated.
"So... the most important thing is to solve the imperial merchant's matter."
"My husband doesn't understand..." She turned her gaze to the inside of the bed and repeated in a low voice to prevent Ning Yi from seeing her expression. Ning Yi sighed and took out the piece of cloth from his body and put it in her hand.
: "I don't understand Huangshang" or I don't understand this piece of cloth?"
Su Tan'er turned around, looked at the cloth in her hand, and then looked at Ning Yi: "Ms. sir, do you already know?"
"To be honest, I really don't know." Ning Yi shook his head, "Xing'er was a little embarrassed." "I didn't force her."
Su Tan'er held the piece of cloth in her hand and looked at it for a while. She occasionally looked aside, thinking about things. When she looked at Ning Yi again, there was a slight smile on her face, but her eyes looked sad. Obviously she
When I think about this recently, I often get the expression "I'm about to cry" or I've secretly cried more than once.
"Ms. sir, I can't be an imperial merchant anymore. I was already thinking about this three years ago." I secretly prepared it for three years. It's such a beautiful color. I thought I would be able to get things done, but in the end it turned out like this.
...It's like someone has deceived us. We didn't add zhehuang, but used a new method to prepare it, including cinnabar, madder, alum, gardenia... This must be a formula that no one has ever used before." Two
More than a month ago, I thought it would scare everyone when I took it out this time. "In the end - in the end it said...,..."
She sniffed and bit her lips. Ning Yi thought for a while: "When did it start to fade?"
"It's been almost two months, and I don't know why." Su Tan'er shook her head, "We have tried many things since we made it, including sun exposure, fire roasting," and washing it with water over and over again. Nothing happened.
So beautiful, there were no problems at first, but in the end... it faded, and I didn't know what to do. After my father fell down, they finally couldn't help but come over and said, maybe it can't be solved, and I asked them to continue.
I tried "But I also know that there is nothing I can do...", I just said "This color is difficult to match, the raw materials use less yellow, and the color will be much different if the formula is slightly wrong." I don't know where to adjust it.
There is a bright yellow color on the formula we accidentally found." She paused for a moment, with tears in her eyes, "There is nothing we can do, sir, we can't get it..."
The weaving industry has developed for so many years, and actually has its own methods for determining what is now called color fastness. However, with the ratio found by Su Tan'er, there is obviously something wrong with these methods. Perhaps it is due to some subtle ratio.
The chemical reaction produced exactly that bright yellow color - of course, with his current knowledge of chemistry, he certainly couldn't solve this problem technically.
Su Tan'er is not someone who is willing to give up easily. "However, when three years of hard work was judged to be meaningless in the end, her expectations for Huangshang suddenly disappeared." In addition, fatigue, pressure, cold and other things were added to the
Together, it is no longer so strange to suddenly fall down. This is the human mental state. You were at your peak one moment. Even if your father falls, the crisis will naturally be over as long as you can get the imperial merchant.
It was only a moment later that I realized that I didn't have any chips at hand. When I was suddenly knocked down from the peak, everything would explode more violently.
However, Ning Yi was still looking at the piece of cloth with great interest at this time. He picked it up from Su Tan'er's hand and said, "Aren't there improvements on the loom? I saw in the account that you took out the money.
………
"Can't change much" was originally prepared to deal with the imperial merchants, but in these aspects, a lot of money has to be deposited, and the income is not much. If you only get the part of the annual coins, it will be a burden. The Weaving Bureau only
They will treat people as coolies..."
"That's enough." Finally, the matter of Huangshang will be solved..."
"But it can't be solved... Mr. Su Tan'er said this, and then he was stunned, looking at Ning Yi's expression that was not affected by her. "Huh?"
"It may be difficult to get it, but that doesn't mean it can't be solved." Ning Yi smiled, "There are solutions for non-fading, and there are solutions for fading." As for how to use it, I still need to think about it..."
Su Tan'er thought for a while: "Ms. sir...could it be that you want to say that the faded ones are good? That won't work..."
After all, she is also a smart person. She knows that sometimes, things can be said and publicized. Ning Yi also has a reputation as a talented person. She thought he wanted to publicize fading as a feature of the cloth. This can work in some cases, but
Putting it here is nothing more than making fun of the royal family. Ning Yi shook his head: "That's not how it is done. I still have some things that I don't know about." Mainly the officials of the Weaving Bureau and each family involved in the imperial business.
If we want to compete for the imperial merchant's bargaining chip, what exactly have we done, and to what extent have we improved the loom... If you still have the energy, you can tell me now, and I will tell you the method later, but
…”
He lowered his head and looked at the piece of cloth: "Huang Shang is the key to the matter. No matter who our opponent is, whether they show up or not, we can use this to let them come out and catch them all. So no matter what," Huang Shang's matter is settled.
One by one, we still have to fight to the end one by one, one by one.”
………………, "...Why? Because we have strength!"
In the morning, "It's still raining." In the courtyard room next door used for discussing matters, Ning Yi was speaking seriously to a group of shopkeepers and stewards. To be honest, this was the first time he had been in a "formal" situation since he came to the Su family.
Although he spoke in such a high-profile manner, "Qingpao Lunjin" still looked presentable. He did seem to have the demeanor expected of someone who was ordered to do so in a critical situation. At least, he "looked like he was trying his best."
At this time, he took a fan and knocked it, looking around.
, "Solve the matter of the Royal Merchant", the plans of those clowns outside, and all the discussions in our family will be settled at once, once and for all. As for who are the people staring at us inside and outside, "don't worry,"
Others will finish these things, the old lady will solve these things, and we just do our own thing well, stabilize the situation, and get the share of Huangshang by any means."
"So in the next month or so, I will take over this judgment. Of course, I know that I have no experience in this area. I will discuss major matters with Tan'er. The shopkeepers are also more experienced in this area than me. I will tell you when the time comes.
I’d like to ask for advice from shopkeeper Liao and everyone else.” Ning Yi clasped his fists humbly and then laughed.
"However, regarding the matter of Huangshang, we will start to open up the situation next. I am a scholar." I have never been exposed to shopping malls, but there are always some things that are common in this world. I still understand the simple rules. For example, last year's Chinese New Year,
I also helped settle the He family's business because I guessed something. "He said it casually. Haha, so, I probably know that one thing is definitely right."
"Good stuff!" He knocked the folding fan on the table and said, "It must be good stuff! It can be found anywhere!"
"Just like us scholars, "talented people will shine wherever they go, and others will always know." So, when you want to sell yourself, you don't have to keep a low profile. Shopkeepers Liao and Nie recently took over the weaving and weaving
We have already made it clear about the interactions between several adults in the bureau. "Everyone knows it, but I think one thing is not enough..."
"We just made it clear that we wanted to take advantage of Huang Shang, and both the Xue family and the Wu family saw it." But we didn't clearly make our bargaining chips clear. I hope that in the future, all the shopkeepers, whether they are inviting people to dinner
, or when talking about the next step of business, you can clearly tell others, "We have been preparing for this time for several years! We do not fight uncertain battles! We already have the best cloth! This is
No one can match your strength!"
"Nowadays, the situation between Dawu and Daliao is tense. There will definitely be problems and frictions in the Sui coins. Every time there is such a change, it is when business opportunities arrive. In the past, just like the Xue family and the Wu family, they regarded the affairs of the imperial merchants as nothing.
They were afraid of the road, but when they saw that the situation was about to change and that we were going to fight, they wanted to fight. It was just a whim and speculation. "What preparations did they have? But we are different." We started preparing for this a few years ago.
Now I can tell everyone about it!"
"Just tell them this, how is the Xue family, how is the Wu family, and how are we?" Although we can't fully release our chips for the time being, we can publicize it like this and let everyone know that we are prepared.
Come, let everyone in the Weaving Bureau know that we are the best and the most prepared. We already have ways to improve the loom, and the efficiency can be increased a lot. We guarantee that it will not affect our business, nor will it affect our business.
Influence the imperial merchants. We have the best cloth... Oh, the next step is something that needs to be kept secret by everyone, but I think it can be taken out for everyone to see, Juan'er, bring the box over."
The little maid Juaner standing by nodded, turned around and moved a box and put it on the table. Ning Yi stretched out his hand to hold the box: "Repeat it, what you see next" please keep it secret, of course "everyone belongs to my Su family"
I know these things better than I do, hehe, I said too much..." After saying this, he slowly opened the rectangular box with a smile, and a piece of bright yellow silk appeared in front of everyone. Several of them
While frowning and marveling, Ning Yi pushed it forward and piled it forward, then picked up a knife and cut off a section awkwardly.
The rain was still falling, the door had been closed, and Ning Yi's voice came from inside.
"Resistant to fire... resistant to washing... resistant to sunlight... does not fade... We just finished the finished product two months ago... I originally wanted to keep a low profile." But in this situation, I think there is no other way...
Complete this thing and solve all the problems... Who has such good cloth? This color... Why should everyone panic? With this color, who else's is the Royal Merchant's if it's not ours... Although I am a scholar,
I also know that it will work this time. We are not asking those adults, but those adults are asking us. Oh, don’t say this out loud, but in short, if we have benefits, they will also have benefits, and their benefits are greater than ours.
, things that are obvious...Okay, in the next month, I will do this with you..."
The rain was still falling, and in the bedroom, Su Tan'er looked at the rain curtain and in the direction of the room in the courtyard next door. She seemed to be able to hear some movement, but of course the only sound that came was the sound of rain. Xiaochan entered the room and stood on the bed.
I chatted with her for a while, and then she said: "My husband, I don't know what he's like now..."
"Sister Xing'er came over just now and said that my uncle was talking. He was very powerful. The shopkeepers were all impressed by what he said. Well, what he said makes sense."
"Well, really?" Su Tan'er laughed, imagining what those "very reasonable" words would look like. Soon after, the discussion over there ended." The sound of the shopkeepers leaving could be heard softly.
Of course, the only sounds coming here were footsteps and people leaving. If she could go out at this time, she might be able to hear some shopkeepers whispering in the rain.
"It's really like a scholar..."
"Some of them still make sense..."
"It's not that simple."
"But...,...that cloth is really..."
"There is no way, the eldest master and the second young lady have both fallen. There are some things that only my uncle can take part in. As long as he watches from the side and doesn't point fingers, it won't be a big deal...
"My uncle is a smart man and he still understands some things..."
"But I'm just a scholar after all, and things in the mall are too complicated..."
Such discussions gradually went away and disappeared in the rain. Ning Yi returned to the small building, clapped his hands, and watched the figures of these people leaving the rain curtain by the window. Then, he turned and went downstairs to visit the sick Su Tan'er.
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Another day later, when Su Tan'er's high fever gradually subsided, Ning Yi also began to take her place. He drove a carriage out of the house every day, imitating the way Su Tan'er had been every day before, and behaved like a diligent and studious young man.
"He started to point fingers" at the Su family's business...