Gu Yan came back much earlier than usual, and Li Xiaonan was writing a letter to the eldest sister.
"What are you writing about?" Gu Yan stretched out his head to read.
"You can't read it!" Li Xiaonan hurriedly reached out to cover the letter, "This is a letter to the eldest sister."
"Why can't I read the letter to your eldest sister?" Gu Yan moved to the other side.
"You are so cold that you haven't even taken off your cloak, Wan Qing!" Li Xiaonan covered the letter with both hands.
Alas, this unpopular rule also has its disadvantages.
"Let me take a look and I'll go." Gu Yan looked down from Li Xiaonan's head.
"No!" Li Xiaonan leaned forward.
She was complaining about the rules in their house.
"Okay, don't look at it if you don't want to." Gu Yan stepped back.
Li Xiaonan breathed a sigh of relief without concealing it.
When Gu Yan came out of the shower, Li Xiaonan had already packed away the papers and pens.
"The letter you sent to your eldest sister must be reporting good news rather than bad news. Why don't you let me read it?" Gu Yan continued what he just said.
"The eldest sister is not stupid. She only worries when reporting good news but not bad news." Li Xiaonan replied.
"Then you are just complaining? Are you saying that I am not good? Are you saying that Aniang is not good? Or are you saying that Jian Lecheng is not good at all?" Gu Yan asked.
Li Xiaonan glanced at him sideways and didn't answer.
"I heard that you were very attentive to the flowers today." Gu Yan changed the subject.
"Who told you? Wanqing?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"Wan Qing is like a mouse to a cat when she sees me. She can't even speak a word. It's not her."
"Who is that?"
"Pili." Gu Yan answered simply and directly.
Li Xiaonan trailed off and said oh.
"Pili told me that Aniang must have asked her to tell me that Weiwu and Xiaojiu were neglecting you?" Gu Yan said.
"Why are I telling you this?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"What do you think?"
"Your mother-in-law, you must know what she is thinking, why are you telling you this?" Li Xiaonan asked closer.
"You have to learn to figure out grandma's intentions."
"Just tell me, why should I learn? I have this time to speculate, so why not get down to business." Li Xiaonan retorted.
Gu Yan choked for a moment, then laughed, "That's right, I'm here. I think you shouldn't just sit like that, but should go talk to Wei Wu and the others. Xiao Jiu is straightforward, and Wei Wu will definitely not ignore it.
you."
Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan and said nothing.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yan asked.
"I'm thinking about what to say."
"Speak directly." Gu Yan smiled.
"I ignore them because I feel that no matter what I do, no matter how good I am to them, it will be of no use."
Gu Yan raised his eyebrows.
"Not only the ninth lady of the Pan family and the fifth lady of the Wei family, but also the young ladies from Jiangle City that I met, I think they don't like me. They don't like me, not because I'm a bad person, but because I married you.
, such a perfect husband...this is the price I pay for marrying you."
Li Xiaonan patted Gu Yan's chest. Gu Yan's eyebrows could not be raised any higher, and then they fell down, and he kept laughing.
"So, it's my fault for causing you trouble." Gu Yan put his arm around Li Xiaonan's waist and pulled her close to him.
"How can this be called implicated?"
"Everyone is happy, but only Xiang Yu is happy. You had to suffer so much during yesterday's flower viewing." Gu Yan said this sentence, and his heart ached.
Li Xiaonan pushed herself out of Gu Yan's arms and looked back at Gu Yan.
"I feel sorry for you." Gu Yan tapped the tip of Li Xiaonan's nose.
"What they don't like is the person who married you instead of Miss Shi Da. No matter who this person is, they don't like it. It's not the right person. Besides."
Li Xiaonan paused, "In the past, when we were in the village, people in the village didn't like us, especially me. They all thought I was a monster. Later, when we moved to Pingjiang City, I had no friends. When they saw me
It's like looking at a monster. I can marry you. I am indeed a monster, right? I'm used to it. If all the little ladies and daughters-in-law in Jianle City like me, I really don't know what I will do."
"I'm only worried that you will be sad and depressed and hurt your body because of this. Nothing else. Now that you have thought so clearly, nothing will happen." Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan and said seriously.
"When you wrote to your eldest sister, did you also talk about these things?" Gu Yan glanced at Li Xiaonan.
"It's not this. Yesterday, your mother-in-law was talking to Aunt Shen. She said that if we have a child in the future, she will take it and raise her as soon as he is born. Is that what your mother-in-law means? You understand, right?" Li Xiaonan lowered her voice.
sound.
"Yeah." Gu Yan's heart sank, "You tell your eldest sister such a thing? Although you can't just report good news and not bad news, how can you tell such gossip to your eldest sister?"
"Sister Mei has a cat. When I feed the cat, the eldest sister doesn't worry. She says, "Hey, don't feed it to make it sick!" The eldest sister doesn't worry when I feed the cat a small dried fish. What do you think?
Can she trust me to take care of the child?" Li Xiaonan patted Gu Yan's chest.
"Your mother-in-law said that. If my eldest sister had been here at that time, she would have applauded and agreed: Yes, yes, that's what I thought!"
Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan speechlessly.
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Seeing Gu Yan come in, Zhou Chennian stood up quickly and handed the letter in his hand to Gu Yan.
"Your Majesty, look at this letter. I just received it."
"Who wrote it?" Gu Yan took it.
"An old friend from Jiangnan." Zhou Chennian smiled.
Since arriving in Jianglecheng, he has picked up almost all of his old friends and classmates in Jiangnan, exchanged letters, and collected important and minor events in Jiangnan.
Gu Yan looked quickly.
The letter mentioned one thing. I heard that Mrs. Li of the Li family, the crown prince, was talking to the Jiangnan Silk Head Office about spreading fine cloth into the silk shops and major silk shops affiliated to the Jiangnan Silk Head Office. I heard that it was Mr. He, the shopkeeper of Linhai Town.
The thread to hold.
"Has the Crown Princess told you about this?" Zhou Chennian asked.
"Grandma stopped caring about business matters a long time ago. What do you think about this?" Gu Yan asked.
"I think Shopkeeper He's letter should arrive in the next two days. Let's take a look at Shopkeeper He's letter first?" Zhou Chennian looked at Gu Yan and asked.
"He Chengze's letter..." Before Gu Yan could finish his words, he suddenly asked: "How did Dong Xi die?"
"He said he died of illness." Zhou Chennian looked at Gu Yan's expression carefully, "If Dong Xi stays in Jiangle City, there is still a way for him to survive. He shouldn't go back."
"I went back because I had something on my mind." Gu Yan snorted vaguely, "All the time I spent studying was spent on random thoughts."
The next day, He Chengze's letter was delivered.
The letter detailed the cooperation between Li Jinzhu and Jiangnan Silk Head Office.
The reason was that Li Jinzhu found that more and more men were trading fine cloth with them, so Li Jinzhu went to He Chengze for advice. The reason why there were more and more men was that Li Jinzhu set a high price for fine cloth, and the profit of weaving fine cloth was so great that it attracted people. Not only are there more and more men selling cotton thread and buying fine cloth, but there are also more men going to weaver schools.
Li Jinzhu hoped to leave fine cloth weaving as a livelihood to poor women. He Chengze suggested that Li Jinzhu lower the price of fine cloth and transfer the profits to the sale of fine cloth. This would also make enough profits for merchants and clothing shops. He was willing to do fine cloth business and suggested that Li Jinzhu cooperate with Jiangnan Silk Head Office.
The talks between Li Jinzhu and Jiangnan Silk Head Office went smoothly.
Finally, He Chengze said that he suggested that Li Jinzhu take the lead in establishing the Jiangnan Cotton Guild, so that the business would not be taken away by the Jiangnan Silk Head Office or manipulated by the Jiangnan Silk Head Office in the future.
Gu Yan and Zhou Chennian discussed until midnight. When they returned to the house, Li Xiaonan had already fallen asleep. Although Gu Yan had many questions and things to say to Li Xiaonan immediately, he still did not wake her up. These were not delays. urgent matters.
