Late September is already the season of late autumn, and the warm sunshine shining on your body does not make you feel hot, but instead makes you feel a touch of warmth.
This is the case with Li Yonglin, the third young lady of the Li family. She doesn't wear much in order to look good. The sun shining on her body makes her feel very warm.
Li Yonglin took advantage of the time when she got off the sedan chair to bask in the sun, and walked into her jewelry store through the back door.
At this time, the shopkeeper is in the backyard instructing the clerks and apprentices to carefully move the goods. The goods in the jewelry store are all small parts with high value, and there are many fragile items, so be careful.
But when the shopkeeper saw Li Yonglin, his eyes flashed and he gave some instructions to the waiters and apprentices. Then he hurriedly came up to meet Li Yonglin and said to Li Yonglin: "Miss Third."
"Shopkeeper Lin." Li Yonglin agreed.
Shopkeeper Lin looked around carefully to make sure that no waiter or apprentice could hear him and then said to Li Yonglin: "Miss Third, I heard that the eunuch next to the emperor is interested in the Li family's property and is instigating the emperor to confiscate the Li family's property.
family wealth, so you summoned the head of the Li family yesterday?"
Li Yonglin looked at Shopkeeper Lin in shock. She was still young and the daughter of the head of the Li family, so she had never heard of such a rumor that had completely gone out of shape after being spread by many people.
'No wonder my mother and elder brother asked me to come out and tell the shopkeeper the truth today. If they were to pass it around like this, they might not know what it would be like in two days. It would also make people panic, and business would be delayed a lot.' Li Yonglin thought.
With.
"Shopkeeper Lin, that's not the case. Your Majesty wants to build an industrial park. He wants the Li family to set an example and move part of the silk industry to the industrial park. Not only the Li family, but also the Shang family also wants to transfer part of the tea industry.
Industries are being relocated to the park.”
"However, as for what an industrial park is and what your Majesty's purpose is, I don't know. My father is very busy and has no time to elaborate with me." Li Yonglin said.
Shopkeeper Lin thought for a moment and accepted what Li Yonglin said. The first reason was because he had never heard the word "industrial park" before, and it must have been a word introduced from other places.
The second reason is that in the two years since this store was assigned to Li Yonglin, he has been in contact with her for a long time. He knows what Li Yonglin looks like when she lies. Now that she doesn't look like she is lying, she is certainly not lying.
Shopkeeper Lin breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the Li family is okay. Although this jewelry store was given to Li Yonglin and will be part of Li Yonglin's dowry in the future, it is now counted as the Li family's property. If the Li family collapses, they
This store is no better.
Seeing his actions, Li Yonglin knew that she had arrived in time, and said to him: "You should talk to the brothers and apprentices, so that they can relax. This time, His Majesty asked the trusted ministers around him to talk to my father in person.
To put it bluntly, it is clear that he is interested in my father's appearance. Our Li family does not have the power of Shen Wansan back then, so it is not worthy of Your Majesty's false pretense. My father said that in the future, although our Li family is not an imperial merchant, it will be almost the same, and it will be much easier to do things in the future.
"
Shopkeeper Lin didn't believe it at all that Li Yonglin said he was an imperial merchant, but he still believed it because it was convenient. The emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, so since he was using the Li family, he had to give benefits.
"Okay, I won't keep you here anymore, I'm going back now. Remember to discuss this with the guys." Li Yonglin finally said.
With that said, she turned around and went out through the back door, and shopkeeper Lin sent her to the door.
Li Yonglin went out and was about to get on the sedan when she suddenly heard a woman's voice saying: "Sister Li."
Li Yonglin's body trembled. This voice was so familiar! She slowly turned her head and looked in the direction from which the voice came. Sure enough, she saw the little girl who was one year younger than herself and called herself Zhang.
Li Yonglin said with a trembling voice: "Miss Zhang, why are you still going out to the market today?"
This girl Zhang is obviously Yunzhi. The day before yesterday, Yunxi allowed her to come out today, and she came out early in the morning with her trusted maid.
Yun Zhi seemed unaware of anything, and stepped forward to take Li Yonglin's hand affectionately and said: "Sister Li, I was just looking for you. I went out three days ago but couldn't buy anything. Today I asked my sister to help me take a look and buy some.
Bring the jewelry back."
Li Yonglin regained some consciousness at this time and said to Yunzhi: "It just so happens that this door is the back door of my jewelry store. Let's go in through this door and I will give the girl some gadgets."
"Okay, Sister Li's stuff is pretty good, I'm just going to check it out," Yunzhi said.
Li Yonglin then took her hand and walked in through the back door.
Shopkeeper Lin was still instructing his assistants to move the goods at this time, and was quite surprised to see Li Yonglin walking in again. Li Yonglin didn't say much to him, and said directly: "Prepare a room to receive distinguished guests."
Shopkeeper Lin hurriedly asked a waiter to take them to a room.
After entering the house, Li Yonglin asked the waiter to go down. As soon as the door was closed, she knelt down and said, "The daughter of the people has met Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
She had met Yun Zhi seven or eight days ago, but she did not associate Yun Zhi with a princess at first. Yun Zhi spoke Beijing Mandarin. Although the emperor was also in Suzhou, he associated any woman with a Mandarin accent as a princess in the palace.
Most people can't do it yet.
But after what happened three days ago, Li Yonglin would be too retarded to think that Yun Zhi was a member of the palace. Li Yonglin not only thought of it, but also analyzed that Yun Zhi must be a princess.
There are only three categories of women with such power in the palace: powerful concubines, powerful maids and princesses. Yun Zhi's age doesn't look like a concubine or a powerful maid, so she can only be a princess. So Li Yonglin today
After rejecting the others, he immediately knelt down to salute Yunzhi and called her princess.
Yunzhi said helplessly: "I'm sorry." But Li Yonglin still kowtowed respectfully before standing up.
Yunzhi said: "Even if you guessed my identity, you don't have to reveal it. Isn't it just like before that we can't get along with each other?"
"How dare a common girl call each other sister to Her Highness the Princess? Please forgive the disrespectful behavior committed by a common girl a few days ago," Li Yonglin said.
Yunzhi waved her hands and said, "He who doesn't know is not guilty." She was a little frustrated. It was not easy for her to meet someone outside the palace who could talk to her on an equal footing, but she ended up like this.
But Li Yonglin smiled at this time and said: "Since Her Royal Highness the Princess has forgiven the sins of the people's daughter, the people's daughter has gone wild. Sister Zhang, don't you want to see the jewelry in my store? I will ask the clerk to bring the latest styles.
." She said and ordered a maid to go out and greet the waiter.
Yun Zhi was very happy: "This is how we should get along." She started talking to Li Yonglin affectionately again. Li Yonglin also selected beautiful jewelry for Yun Zhi and 'sold' it to her at a price that was equivalent to giving it away.
She then accompanied Yunzhi for shopping for a long time, and at ten o'clock in the afternoon, she and Yunzhi separated and returned home.
Before parting, Yunzhi took out a jade pendant, handed it to Li Yonglin and said: "Sister Li, I will leave Suzhou in a few days. Before I leave, I will give you a jade pendant as a gift. If you come to the capital in the future, you can also
Come to me with the jade pendant."
Li Yonglin did not refuse to accept the jade pendant, and also took out a jade pendant and said: "Miss Zhang, my sister's family owns a jewelry store, so I can only give my sister a jade pendant."
Yunzhi did not refuse, accepted her jade pendant, and tied it around her waist.
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"You did a good job. If our family is a merchant in the capital, it would be fine if we don't reveal her identity as a princess and slowly develop a relationship with her. But since we are a merchant in Suzhou, and Her Royal Highness is leaving Suzhou soon, what else should we hide?
Meaning?" Li Yuanli said.
"It's just that you still call each other sister with her later, especially calling her sister is a bit risky. If after your identity is revealed, she is unwilling to call each other sister with a girl from an ordinary family, you will have greatly offended her.
.Fortunately, this princess doesn’t care.”
"Dad, I did this after thinking over and over again. Her Royal Highness the Princess is only eleven years old, so she shouldn't be able to hide her emotions very well at such a young age. So I judged her eating habits based on everything I've seen from her.
This is how you dare to do this." Li Yonglin said.
"No matter what, you are still taking too much risk. Even if you are 90% sure of your judgment, you should not take such a big risk." Li Yuanli said.
"Yes, daddy." Li Yonglin lowered her head and said.
Li Yuanli said again: "Show me the jade pendant that Her Royal Highness gave you."
Li Yonglin took out the jade pendant from the sachet and handed it to Li Yuanli.
Li Yuanli looked at it and said: "This style is indeed the style of the palace. She didn't fool you with an ordinary jade pendant. It shows that she has some feelings for you." After saying that, Li Yuanli handed the jade pendant to Li Yonglin again, "
Keep it well, if there is any big disaster in our Li family in the future, this may be able to save our whole family."
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Yunxi watched a middle-aged man wearing a fourth-grade official uniform walk out of the room, sat down on a chair and said, "You can take him away."
"His Majesty ordered Bai Wenxuan's crimes to be announced, and he still dares not to believe it. This is really outrageous. Why don't Your Majesty punish him severely for this?" Wang Xi said angrily from the side.
"To deal with such people, you cannot use too harsh methods. If you cannot convince these Confucian scholars, it will be counterproductive to suppress them. You must provide strong evidence to dispel his suspicions." Yunxi said.
"But it is true that he is not suitable to continue to serve as the governor of Suzhou. Let's see if there are civil servants with similar seniority but open-minded ideas in the court and the Chinese government who can be sent to take over as the governor of Suzhou."
Suddenly Yunxi realized something and scolded Wang Xi with a smile: "What are you talking about? You are suspected of being a eunuch interfering in politics. If I follow the ancestral system, I should send you to the Xiaoling Guard. If you don't go on, hurry up and send Jin Shan and the others to justice."
Call them up, I want to discuss the departure with them!"