Li Xiaonan hunched her shoulders and lowered her head, not daring to raise her eyelids. All she could see was the prince's pair of shoes and half a foot of clothes.
There is nothing visible on the skirt of the clothes. The shoes are brand new and have thin soles. The craftsmanship is really good. You can tell they are good things at first glance.
The upper and sides of the shoe are both indigo, and the edge of the sole has the same dark pattern as the upper. The pattern is in a scattered diamond shape, which is very nice and trendy. Judging from the appearance of the shoe, the feet look good.
In the past, her colleague who taught life in metaphysics said: Anyone who is rich and powerful has good-looking hands and feet...
"Miss Li."
Li Xiaonan stared at the prince's shoes and didn't react.
"Li Xiaonan!"
"Here!"
This sound was sent straight into the depths of Li Xiaonan's ears, and Li Xiaonan immediately responded with a crisp response.
The prince laughed loudly, and Wenbin also laughed out loud.
Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan who was staring at him speechlessly.
"The prince is talking to you!" Gu Yan took a breath.
"The prince said that you are very knowledgeable." The prince smiled and continued.
Li Xiaonan kept blinking and looked at Gu Yan.
She didn't know how to answer. It seemed inappropriate to say that it was indeed very good, but if she was too modest, would it be considered bullying?
"What are you looking at him for?" The prince laughed again.
"Afraid of saying the wrong thing." Li Xiaonan could no longer refuse to answer.
"What did your eldest son tell you? To scare you like this?" The prince raised his eyebrows slightly.
"He didn't say anything. It's because you are different. You are different from them." Li Xiaonan shrank her shoulders.
When she was working in the past, she always listed her boss in a separate row above her colleagues in the company. Now that she was facing Jun, it was even more different. He couldn't be considered a human being.
"They all told you to do whatever you want, right? Ignore them. Just talk to me how you talk to your prince." The prince smiled.
"Yes." Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing are pretty much the same.
"You scared her." The prince turned to Gu Yan and smiled.
"She is very courageous." Gu Yan smiled bitterly, and then said: "Tell her about the Chengzi Gang?"
The prince motioned to Gu Yan and said.
"President Zhu of the Silk Shop plans to help Mrs. Wu, the daughter-in-law of the Zou family of the Chengzi Gang, to take over the Chengzi Gang. Wu is a person who can take over the Chengzi Gang. Can you go there and persuade Mrs. Wu to join her?" Gu.
Yan is straightforward.
The prince raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Wen Bin raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Xiaonan carefully.
"What can I use to persuade?" Li Xiaonan asked with a frown.
"What do you think?" Gu Yan glanced at the prince and asked.
"The Silk Shop has money to supplement the wages of porters for the Chengzi Gang, but the Zou family has kept the money for their own use. Mrs. Wu must know about this. What should we do with the money?" Li Xiaonan asked.
The prince put away the folding fan and looked at Li Xiaonan.
"There will definitely be no more in the future." Gu Yan spread his hands.
"Then if she wants to be a concubine or something, can you give it to her?" Li Xiaonan asked again.
"No." Gu Yan answered simply and directly.
"That's a waste of time. We can only give it a try." Li Xiaonan chuckled.
"If the Wu family can help the prince revitalize the Customs and Excise Department, and the credit is sufficient, it is not impossible for him to be granted the title." The prince smiled.
Li Xiaonan glanced at the prince's shoes and said nothing.
If the credit is enough, how much is enough? She is most annoyed by this kind of pie-drawing trick.
"When are you going?" Li Xiaonan asked with lowered eyes.
"The sooner the better. If you have nothing to do, I will send you there today and let Wan Qing accompany you there?" Gu Yan glanced at the prince and replied.
"Then today, Wan Qing is with me. I want to say a few words to Mr. Huang first." Li Xiaonan glanced at Gu Yan.
Seeing the prince nodding, Gu Yan ordered: "Okay. Wan Qing goes to change into suitable clothes. Let's go now."
Wan Qing changed into half-worn muslin clothes that were similar to Li Xiaonan's, and sat in the most ordinary Paulownia cart. She followed the guards dressed as small caravans and was mixed in with countless large and small caravans traveling to and from Linhai Town.
Linhai Town.
In the afternoon, the entire Linhai Town was busy receiving the prince's private visit. Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing got off the car in front of Zoujiajiao Gate and gave their surname Wu, claiming to be relatives of the Wu family and asking to see Mrs. Wu.
The mother-in-law went in to report and came back, taking Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing into the wing of the main courtyard.
Wu is slightly thin and dark, with slightly sunken eye sockets, thin lips and sharp edges, and a sharp face and expression. She sits upright and looks at Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing coldly.
Li Xiaonan entered the wing and turned around to look around.
The wing room was not big, and Wu was the only one there. Li Xiaonan took a step back, leaned forward and looked outside.
There was no one on the corridor in front of the wing, but two girls were sitting opposite, lowering their heads and doing needlework.
"There is no one in my family and I don't have any relatives." Mrs. Wu looked at Li Xiaonan who was looking around unscrupulously and said coldly.
"My surname is Li, and her name is Wan Qing. She came from the palace outside Pingjiang City." Li Xiaonan introduced herself and Wan Qing.
Mrs. Wu narrowed her eyes and sneered, "President Zhu came up last night, and you two are here again today. I already rejected President Zhu yesterday. I am a woman whose husband died, and I just want a safe life.
If you don’t have the ability to be a chess piece in the hands of noble people like you, you should go back.”
"Oh, okay." Li Xiaonan agreed too simply, and both Wu and Wan Qing were startled.
"Leave directly? Or offer incense to Mr. Zou?" Li Xiaonan turned around and asked Wan Qing.
"You have to put incense sticks." Wan Qing was a little confused and answered subconsciously.
"Then go and burn incense. We won't come here after we burn incense, so we'll say goodbye." Li Xiaonan turned around and walked out.
"Is this how Ms. Li becomes a lobbyist?" Mrs. Wu couldn't believe it.
"Yeah!" Li Xiaonan paused, turned around, looked at Wu and said: "As a lobbyist, I want to persuade you not to follow President Zhu. Now, you don't plan to get involved in the gang, but to live your life according to your own ideas.
For the rest of my life, then I have nothing to say.
"Although Buddhism talks about reincarnation, except for a very few who have great opportunities, the rest of us can only really perceive the present moment. All we can feel is this life, which is only a few decades.
"You must be over thirty, right? People live seventy years rarely, and the future is not long, only twenty or thirty years. In the past, the yard was full of warblers and birds, and they were probably very noisy. From now on, you should
Live the life you want and enjoy the rest of your life."
Li Xiaonan smiled and waved to Mrs. Wu, stepped out of the threshold, lit incense in front of the main room, and went straight out with Wan Qing and got in the car.
Wan Qing pressed her eyes against the seam of the car window, watching the Wu family getting further and further away. She threw down the curtain and glared at Li Xiaonan: "Is this how you do your errands?"
"Otherwise? What else can we do? People want to live a stable life."
"You didn't do your job!" Wan Qing was a little crazy.
"I didn't say it could be done. Besides, your father said: Let me convince her not to stand over there, but over here.
"Now that she's not taking sides, we can't say the mission was accomplished, but we can't say it wasn't accomplished either." Li Xiaonan chuckled.
Wan Qing stayed for a moment and let out a laugh.
This is true!
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－－
I'm not satisfied with the last chapter, and I've been hesitating until now. Forget it, I won't post it, I'll delete it and I'll write it again tomorrow
