The young man came out of the hall, cupped his hands slightly to Lin Wanru, and said, "Miss Wanru, I believe you know that this is good for our Lin and Liu families. I hope you can think about what I said."
Lin Wanru shook her head, and said bluntly, "Mr. Liu said that if it's something other than cooperation, then there's no need to think about it."
The young man wasn't angry either, he just smiled and said, "Your Majesty came here with sincerity, so why should Miss Lin refuse to be seen thousands of miles away? We still have some time, so you don't have to rush to reply."
After that, he bowed his hands and said goodbye.
When he left, his eyes paused on Li Yi, but it was only for a moment before he walked out slowly.
"Brother Li, look, this Mr. Liu is also a good-looking talent, with a personable demeanor, if you don't seize the opportunity..."
Before Lin Yong could finish his words, he was dragged away by Lao Fang covering his mouth.
Li Yi looked up at Lin Wanru, and asked, "Have you encountered any difficulties in business?"
"It's not difficult." Lin Wanru shook her head, sat down opposite him, and said, "The Liu family is also in the fabric and silk business here in Liuzhou. In recent years, it has expanded into ready-made clothing, which is roughly the same as ours. The same In other places, if you do the same business, you can only be an enemy instead of a friend, not to mention, Liuzhou is only so big, and several big families have already divided up the resources. It is not that simple for us to share another piece of the pie... "
"They have the materials, the market, and we have the technology. Cooperation is a win-win situation..." Li Yi looked at her and asked, "You don't seem to be very willing?"
"What they want is not just cooperation." Lin Wanru shook her head and said, "They want me to marry."
She looked at Li Yi, blinked her eyes, and said, "Shopkeeper Li, in the contract we negotiated at the beginning, there was no such thing as prostitution..."
"Of course." Li Yi nodded and said, "Cooperation is cooperation. This request is too much. It must not be agreed. Liuzhou's business can not be done, and marriage must not be trifling."
"Not necessarily." Lin Wanru looked outside the door and said, "The Liu family is a royal relative with deep-rooted influence. The silk business spreads all over Qi, not only in Liuzhou, but also has great influence in other places. I have accumulated some savings in the past few years, which is touted by many people, but in fact my foundation is shallow. Without the protection of the third prince, I will be like duckweed in the water and catkins in the wind, and I can only be manipulated by others... "
Li Yi shook his head and said, "Marriage should be the ending where two people like each other, it should not be an exchange of some kind of interests, let alone such a joke..."
"Life is alive, how can everything go well." Lin Wanru smiled and said: "How many combinations in this world are not mutual liking, so what if you like it, so what if you don't like it, it's not all for a lifetime..."
"Don't be so pessimistic..."
"I'm only a few months younger than Sister Yi. Now Duan'er is five years old. When I was young, I was a playmate of the neighbor. The child just got engaged last month..." She smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "If you don't marry again, No one really wants it…”
"Is there anyone who wants the famous Miss Lin?" Li Yi looked at her, shook his head and said, "If you say you want to marry, you want to marry your man, I'm afraid you will have to go from Liuzhou to the capital."
Lin Wanru looked at him and asked, "Shopkeeper Li, doesn't mean he wants me to earn a few more years for your Li family?"
"Lin and Li belong to the same family, so it's a fate..." Li Yi shook his head and said, "Fate is a wonderful thing. Sometimes you meet when you say you meet it. Wanru, you are in your prime now, so wait a little longer." One or two years, it's okay..."
"Sounds good." Lin Wanru raised her eyebrows and said, "Why don't you marry yourself now that there are still people who want it, and after two years, you really won't be able to get married, so you marry me?"
After she finished speaking, the two of them stopped talking, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
"You know, there are four in my family now, and it's usually messy enough..." Li Yi was the first to break the silence. He lowered his head and sighed leisurely.
Lin Wanru couldn't help laughing, and waved her hand: "It's just a joke, don't worry, I won't marry you..."
Her eyes were originally clear and bright, but at a certain moment, they seemed to lose their brilliance.
"The house is already chaotic enough, and you won't have any more..." Li Yi raised his head and said, "Anyway, no one wants you anymore, why don't you think about it then?"
…
Outside the courtyard, Lin Yong and Lao Fang were sitting on a big tree.
Looking at Li Yi who was being chased and beaten in the courtyard, Lao Fang patted Lin Yong on the shoulder and said, "See, what's the matter with you, why were you so anxious just now?"
Lin Yong nodded guiltily and said, "I'm sorry, I was wrong..."
"Let's learn a little in the future..." Lao Fang taught him seriously, and jumped off the tree in twos and twos.
Lin Yong was startled, and looked down, suddenly dizzy.
He hugged the tree trunk and said loudly: "Put me down, I'm afraid of heights!"
…
Liuzhou's business is dispensable to Li Yi, and even the entire Qi State's business doesn't mean much to him.
The Li family's business is spread all over the state capitals of Qi, and he also has taxes from Shuzhou and Ruyi City. He has earned enough money, not only enough, but also to support Yang Liuqing's rebellion, more than enough.
He doesn't have any big ambitions, such as being the richest man in the world - if he had only this ambition, he might have already achieved it.
But since he was going to stay in Liuzhou for a while, he had nothing to do, so he did some things easily.
If others insist on fighting for something, he doesn't mind fighting to the end.
Liuzhou's business expansion is still in the preliminary stage, and there will be no obstacles for the time being.
Xu Zheng's plan to unify the holy religion has encountered great obstacles.
Before Liuzhou, they had unified more than ten states successively, without encountering any major obstacles.
Perhaps this finally aroused the vigilance of the other party. The next few states that Xu Zheng took people to, could no longer contact the branch there.
The headquarters of Shengjiao is in the capital of Qi State, and it has branches in most of the state capitals of Qi State.
These branches are managed by the elite of the teaching staff. On weekdays, they have single-line contact with the teaching staff. When Xu Zheng and the others went, they did not contact these people.
In this way, they will not be able to obtain the list of congregants, and all actions can only be temporarily suspended.
Qi State is much bigger than Wu State and Jing State. There are nearly a hundred state capitals. They only unified a dozen states. After the other party took precautions, every step became extremely difficult. The unification of the unification, we must unify until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse...
Li Yi thought for a moment, borrowed the study from Wanru, and started writing letters.
He wrote a few words on the envelope.
"Xu Tian kissed me."