Old Mrs. Zhu's face was ashen. His son, Zhu Jiuye, was sitting next to Mr. Zhu and was speaking in a low voice.
"...The cheapest weaver in Yahang costs one hundred taels.
"I asked several companies about harvesting autumn silkworm cocoons, and they all swore and swore not to admit it. Even if evidence was thrown in their faces, they dared to deny it. There were so many weaving workshops that harvested autumn silkworm cocoons, almost every family was there.
Collect it, Dad, do you see it?"
Mr. Zhu slowly exhaled to calm down the anger in his heart.
These weavers are short-sighted and can only see the petty profit on the tip of their noses!
"These," Mr. Zhu took a breath and gritted his teeth, "let's not mention it for now. The Maritime Chamber of Commerce in winter is the big event! I didn't expect this old guy He Chengze to work so hard!"
"Maritime merchants have always done business with us, He family?" Zhu Jiuye carefully expressed his doubts.
His father is full of anger.
Mr. Zhu narrowed his eyes slightly and then opened them. He was silent for a moment and said: "In the earliest days, it was the He family that led the Silk Head Office to hook up with those maritime merchants."
"Ah!" Zhu Jiuye's eyes widened.
"He family, the water is very deep." Mr. Zhu sighed deeply.
"What about us?" Zhu Jiuye was a little flustered.
"Our Zhu family has been able to run the Jiangnan Silk Shop for two generations because we relied on the Pang family, and later on we supported Xianggong Wang. We have support behind us, but we can't help ourselves. We are chess pieces in their hands." Zhu
The old man's voice was low and slow.
Zhu Jiuye turned pale.
This is the truth, letters from the capital are directing them.
"Another letter from the capital?" Zhu Jiuye said in a dry tone.
"Yes." Mr. Zhu leaned back on his chair, was stunned for a moment, and then signaled to his son, "Go to Changzhou City yourself and ask Shi Datou to come see me quietly."
"Okay." Zhu Jiuye looked at his father, swallowed his doubts, stood up and walked out.
Mr. Zhu watched his son go out, his shoulders slumped and his expression gloomy.
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Shi Datou rushed back to Changzhou City from Pingjiang City, ordered a table of food, several jars of good wine, and invited two sworn brothers over.
Shi Datou motioned to the two brothers to sit down, and he drank one glass after another, four or five glasses of wine in a row.
"What happened?" Lao Er looked at Shi Datou carefully and asked.
"Brother, didn't you say you were going to see Mr. Zhu?" The third child picked up the pot and poured wine for Shi Datou.
"Mr. Zhu has been very kind to me." Shi Datou raised his head and drank up the glass of wine.
"What did he ask us to do?" Lao San asked.
"Kill someone." Shi Datou took the jug from Lao San's hand and filled it with wine.
"Isn't this a trivial matter?" The second child breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.
"Which noble family is it?" The third child looked at the eldest brother's expression and asked.
The second child stopped laughing.
Shi Datou drank up the wine in two gulps, "A little girl, she is accompanied by an escort, her skills are very good, she can fight all over Linhai Pier without any opponent."
"Just one? It's useless no matter how good a person's skills are. Two fists can't beat four hands. Let's bring a few more brothers and beat him to death with a bunch of sticks!" The second child spat.
"In addition to the bodyguard, she is also accompanied by a maid, a coachman, and four attendants, all of whom are from the royal palace outside Pingjiang City. The maid is the maid of the prince." Shi Datou continued.<
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The second child's eyes widened when he heard this, and the third child was stunned. After a moment, the third child smiled bitterly and said: "Eldest brother agreed?"
Shi Datou nodded.
"Once this man is killed, we will be on the run from now on." The second child sighed.
"You two leave, I have to stay. This person must be killed by us and has nothing to do with the Zhu family or the silk shop." Shi Datou threw the cup on the table.
"What the hell!"
"Old Master Zhu has been very kind to me. He wants my life, so I have to give it to him." Shi Datou cut off the second son's words, "People in the world of Jianghu should be as polite as people in Jianghu."
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Li Xiaonan rushed from Jiaxing to Jinling, Changzhou.
The weather has turned cold, and Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing huddled in the carriage, looking at Awu, who had a quilted cloak draped over his shoulders and commanded the horse to jump and jump like this to practice riding.
Wang Yuting's horse was led behind the cart, and he was sitting next to the driver, holding a hand stove. While watching Awu practice riding skills, he was chatting with Li Xiaonan and Wanqing.
"By the way, I heard that there is a book called The Legend of Sang Shuai. It sounds very good. Have you heard of it?" Li Xiaonan suddenly remembered it, looked at Wang Yuting and asked with a smile.
Sang Shuai Chuan was in those buildings in Bieye Bookstore where takeout was not allowed. Wan Qing had almost never heard of storytelling. She had never even heard of the word "Sang Shuai Chuan".
"I've heard of it!" Wang Yuting's voice rose and he laughed, "In the first month of the first month of the year when I eloped with A Wu, a storyteller came to the county town. He first told the story in the open space of the Mule and Horse Walk, and he only talked for two or three days.
Well, I was invited by Hongxiang Teahouse to tell stories in their teahouse.
"You don't know how lively it is!
"Hongxiang Teahouse faces the county school and is a large open space. The teahouse has removed all the door panels.
"It was very cold in the first month of the year in our place. But even though the door panels were all removed, it was really not cold at all inside the teahouse. The open space was crowded with people, which blocked all the cold air. It was even colder than the door panels.
It works."
Wang Yuting patted the red copper stove and sighed with satisfaction.
"You don't know how lively it is!"
"Are you just watching the fun? Didn't you listen to the book?" Li Xiaonan looked at Wang Yuting and asked.
"That's what you said! Awu and I were just listening to books and not watching the excitement!
"We didn't listen to the books during the two or three days in the mule and horse shop, and we didn't listen to the books in the first two days after moving to Hongxiang Tea House. When we went there, we were talking about Sang Shuai killing the bullies in Nancheng in anger and eradicating the people.
We listened to that episode for three days in a row, and on the fourth day, the family wouldn’t let us go out.”
Wang Yuting paused in his words, glanced at Wan Qing, and said with a smile: "The matchmaker came to the door, and the family asked me to go on a blind date, so A Wu and I ran away.
"I just listened to the part about Nancheng Bully, and before I finished it, I heard that the entire biography of Sang Shuai would take half a year without stopping.
"It sounds so good! Sang Shuai is a little lady, very powerful. Awu admires Sang Shuai the most. She said that if she lived at Sang Shuai's time, she would go to Sang Shuai no matter what and work for Sang Shuai.
She is willing to sit on the meat stool!
"I am willing too." Wang Yuting looked yearning.
"There really is this book. When I get rich, I'll hire a storyteller who can tell the story of Sang Shuai and tell it to you and Ah Wu from beginning to end." Li Xiaonan said with a smile.
"It seems something happened ahead." The driver said, stood up and looked forward.
Ah Wu jumped in front of Chang Sui and rode forward. After a while, Ah Wu rushed back.
"The two trucks carrying bluestones in front hit someone and overturned. The person was seriously injured. The driver and the villagers had a fierce quarrel and were about to start a fight. Should we wait or take a detour?" Awu
I asked.
Li Xiaonan looked at Chang Sui, who was coming back behind A Wu.
Chang Sui leaned over and said: "The person was seriously injured. Li Zheng has already sent someone to report it to the officials. The two carts of blue strips of stone cannot be moved until the officials have inspected them. It will be delayed for at least two or three hours. Let's take a detour." p>
"Then take a detour." Li Xiaonan nodded.
The driver jumped out of the car, took the horse, and slowly turned the cart around, changing the road, and headed towards Jinling.
