When he received the news, he couldn't believe it.
In spite of the imperial court's explicit prohibition that officials should not leave their jurisdiction without any reason, they went to the place where the accident happened to personally check, but faced the fact that the ship was destroyed and the people died.
During that time, Xue Tingxiang had forgotten how he came here. When he finally began to have his own reason, he held a funeral for Zhao's mother and son, and returned to his jurisdiction, but he faced being held accountable by Shangfeng and accused of impeaching him for dereliction of duty by the court.
He returned to Beijing to report his work, and the situation was very bad.
At that time, the Shen family treated him like a passerby, and because he was released from Beijing in a hurry, there were not many friends who could help. He was almost in despair. In fact, at this time, he didn't seem to care about everything, but suddenly someone came to him.
It is one of his classmates, the two are familiar and have some friendship, but they are not too deep.
This man was very attentive and gave him advice and asked him to seek his teacher Wu Yong. He also said that the teacher has always been generous and will definitely not ignore him.
Out of a strange state of mind, he listened to the person's persuasion and prepared a ceremony to come to the door. Although Wu Ge was a little cold to him, he was not very high-profile and agreed to stand up for him.
At that moment, he had a hunch in his heart that this was a conspiracy.
Sure enough, he pushed the boat along with the old Wu Ge to release his previous suspicions, and appropriately expressed his shame and regret, and then successfully stayed in Beijing with the help of the old Wu Ge. When a natural thing happened, someone mentioned to him that Wu Ge wanted to recruit. his son-in-law.
How can he be!
In the dream, he asked himself this question more than once, and he only got the answer after marrying Wu Wanqiong.
This woman has a strange mentality, and actually has a very inexplicable obsession with him. This obsession is very strange. And the beginning of this bad relationship was a chance encounter that he didn't know about, and the acquiescence of the Shen and Wu families like a child's play.
After learning the truth of the matter, he felt extremely ridiculous.
Because of an inexplicable curiosity, because the Shen and Wu families are going to join forces again, his whole life has been changed.
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Zhao'er finally gave Hong'er a bath, and she was already tired and sweaty.
To express her anger, she slapped Honger's little butt twice, but it made him laugh.
"Xue Tingxiang, take your son away!"
Hearing the shouting, Xue Tingxiang woke up from his memory and hurried to the bathroom.
The door of the bathroom was opened from the inside, Zhao'er's clothes were mostly wet, and they were sticking to the body in a translucent state. The ends of the hair were covered with water, and the face was flushed with white, like a water hibiscus.
Xue Tingxiang was stunned immediately, and couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
Zhao'er glared at him and shoved his son, who was wrapped in a large cloth, into his arms: "Look, take the little rotten away! Go and dress him and dry his hair! I'll wash it first. , I'm done washing, you wash again."
Her voice was fierce, but full of life.
So fresh that Xue Tingxiang was still immersed in his previous memories, he couldn't help thumping a few times.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that he didn't move, he looked a little weird, Zhao'er couldn't help but asked, and then touched his forehead with his hand: "What kind of hysteria?"
It was only then that he reacted and glanced at her deliberately: "I look good."
good-looking
Zhao'er looked down at his chest subconsciously, and saw that the thin fabric could no longer stop the abnormal bulge.
She could even clearly feel that because of his gaze, the sensitive one stood taller, like a thriving little flower, swaying and showing its beauty.
Her face flushed red, and she slammed the door shut.
Xue Tingxiang looked down at his arms, curiously looking at what his parents were doing, the thin-skinned, tender-fleshed little boy immediately became happy, it was just a dream.
Now that he knew about the dream, he naturally wouldn't let that happen again.
No one can!
Finally, all three of the family lay on the kang in vain, and Zhao'er was exhausted for half his life.
She would rub her waist from time to time, and Xue Tingxiang saw it and went to rub her. He had big hands, neither light nor heavy, and he kneaded it very comfortably, so Zhao'er let him knead it.
Seeing this, Hong'er hurriedly went to rub it for her mother, but where he kneaded well, he just took a small hand and patted it around, it was pure mischief.
But Zhao'er smiled and said that Hong'er grew up and knew filial piety.
Honger knows what filial piety is. Dad has told him stories, and he knows that his mother is praising him. While proud, he is busy working hard.
It's a pity that he didn't have a high number of paragraphs to be a father. After being instructed by Xue Tingxiang for a while, he instructed to pinch his mother's legs.
Xue Tingxiang and Zhao'er were gossiping, and they talked about Wu Wanqiong.
Zhao'er recounted Wu Wanqiong's life experience, and then sighed: "Wan Qiong is also pitiful. She is alone without her husband and children at such a young age."
Xue Tingxiang snorted softly: "You are easy to trust people. How do you know if what she said is true or false? You go to have someone check her history?"
Zhao'er was stunned for a moment, and said, "That's not true, but people lied to me. Besides, you think I'm stupid, and people of unknown origin dare to collect them from the shop. There is a document issued by Baojia. It is indeed a person from the capital, her husband died, she is left alone, and she has no children."
Xue Tingxiang's eyes dimmed, but Wu Wanqiong did everything, and she was indeed Wu Ge's daughter. And this kind of thing may be difficult for others, but as Wu Wanqiong, it is too easy to make a random copy.
The reason why he didn't say it was Wu Ge Lao was because it was impossible for Wu Ge Lao to let his daughter go to work in a shop and enter his house as a female assistant.
Now the two are enemies.
The only thing that can be explained clearly is that this is Wu Wanqiong's personal behavior, and Wu Ge is not aware of it.
As for why Wu Wanqiong had worked so hard to do such inexplicable things. Xue Tingxiang could only explain it with an inexplicable obsession. Anyway, what Wu Wanqiong was thinking, Xue Tingxiang didn't know in that dream, and he didn't bother to know.
The same is true today.
"Anyway, you usually pay more attention, people are separated from each other, and the water in the capital is too deep, it is all intrigue and ulterior motives. How do you know that the other party is not your opponent, and sent to spy on your business secrets?"
These words made Zhao Er said stunned. Maybe she didn't believe in business secrets before, but she did after she came to the capital. The bigger the place is, the more people there will be, and the more people there will be competition, what can’t you do to grab business? It's like the two workshops she bought before, not because people wanted to run on her and didn't run, but she ruined the business.
"Also, didn't you say before that the Beijing Chamber of Commerce and Shanxi Chamber of Commerce have come to visit you, but you are too lazy to deal with them?"
It's good not to mention this, but the mere mention of the trick makes me full of anger.
With the gradual emergence of Wangji Flower Square in the capital, Zhao'er has also entered the sight of various chambers of commerce.
The so-called chamber of commerce originated from the fact that the status of businessmen was too low, a phenomenon of helping each other in a group. Until it develops to protect the interests of peers and peers, it is the interests of fellow villagers, and monopolizes, divides, and excludes in the form of joint establishment of guild halls or business gangs.
Every chamber of commerce has a leader, and the chamber of commerce is divided into many industries, such as those in the grain business, the top figures in the grain business, and the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., and there are also recognized leading figures in their series. Under each leading figure, there will be many large or small fish and shrimp, and these people control the entire market.
The sudden rise of Wangji Flower Shop, coupled with its rapid occupation of the local silk flower market, will inevitably infringe on the interests of others.
No, some people rely on their years in the capital and have a little bit of thin face in the chamber of commerce, so they let the chamber of commerce come forward to talk about it.
Saying goodbye sounds good, but it is actually a hint that you should stay on the line in everything, so we can meet you in the future.
Zhao'er is different from these people. He was born in a wild team. So far, in addition to his own exploration in business, it is something that Xue Tingxiang taught by words and deeds.
She didn't know much about how to do this, and she started to think that the other party was trying to deceive people, so she drove them away. When he came again, Zhao'er learned from Xue Tingyu what the Chamber of Commerce was doing, and only then did he understand the relationship.
But she still didn't give these people a good face.
To put it bluntly, the rules are all aimed at the following people. The high-level businessmen of the chamber of commerce are all engaged in monopoly business, and no one has jumped out and said that they have infringed on the interests of others.
Zhao'er doesn't want to eat them. She has never had the habit of spitting out the meat she eats in her mouth. And she has always eaten soft and not hard. If she has said it, maybe she will abide by this rule for everyone, and restrain herself to follow the custom, but the other party looks down on her and throws her face.
You've lost your face, can I still put your face on it and beat you? So Zhaoer was too lazy to deal with these people.
And Zhao'er is trying to figure out what the Chamber of Commerce does, and she has also thought about it. Now her silk flower business is not done by the store, but has taken the same path as Wang Ji Caixing before—
From dots to lines, all are scattered out.
In the capital, there are various small vendors, merchants, and small grocery stores, and then spread out from the capital, almost the same pattern everywhere.
You talk to small vendors, peddlers, and grocers about the Chamber of Commerce
Don't say whether this kind of little people know, even if they do, they won't bother to pay attention to you. First, you won't go out of your way to deal with a small vendor, and secondly, there are thousands of vendors, and they will punish them if they can.
Therefore, in Zhao'er's eyes, these chambers of commerce are paper tigers, and they can't scare people at all.
Xue Tingxiang felt both astonished and amused at her thought.
What's astonishing is that Zhao'er's idea has always been different, and the funny thing is that she doesn't seem to be wrong about this idea. Those chambers of commerce are all big businessmen and big firms, where would they care about three melons and two dates with a small commoner.
But the problem is that these three melons have moved too many interests.
These interests may be nothing to those big businessmen who are making money every day, but they have already been noticed.
This shows that, maybe after some time, Wang Ji Huafang will be officially launched, and at that time, it may usher in the joint suppression of the entire chamber of commerce.
For this reason, Xue Tingxiang deliberately took advantage of Zhao Erxiao.
No, in order to prevent and prevent people from being fundamentally suppressed by the supply of materials, Zhao'er has already sent Gao Sheng to Jiangnan, just to find a sufficient and stable supply of goods.
In fact, Zhao'er had this idea in the first place. To get the goods from the cloth dealers in Beijing is like picking up a few skins. The Jiangnan area is the place where all kinds of silk cloth and silk are produced, so it is better to start from the source.
"Don't you think Wan Qiong was sent by those people? Then they look down on me too much! Besides, what's the use of having someone by my side, stealing secret techniques? We don't have any at home, that silk flower. Everyone can do it, we just grab the first opportunity.”
Xue Tingxiang touched his nose: "I don't mean that, I just want to remind you, be careful in everything, after all, this time is different. By the way, you can ignore the Beijing Chamber of Commerce, and the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce can still contact one or two. On the one hand, the news is convenient, and on the other hand, it is also to win over and take advantage of the situation, everything has advantages and disadvantages, it all depends on how you do it.”
Zhao'er showed an embarrassed expression, in fact, she did not reject contact with outsiders, but now that she has a child, she always feels that the mother should be by the child's side, and there is really no manpower around her.
The more she thought about it, the more headache she felt, and she was too lazy to think about it any more, so she decided to talk about it later. Then he remembered another thing, and said, "Speaking of this, it's time to give bonuses to Xiulan and the others, and I don't have an account."
As for the business of Wangji Flower Square, the three families of Li, Mao, and Chen have never intervened since they moved out. However, it was a partnership business at the beginning, and naturally they still have to share dividends, but their share is not large.
First, the shops and ideas that Zhaoer came out with, and secondly, the money invested by a few companies is not much, and now the business is only supported by Zhaoer. Only one family wants half of it.
Even if this is half of it, it is a lot of money, which is equivalent to buying a hen that can lay golden eggs with very little money. Only Chen Xiulan is still developing new patterns for the flower shop, and making some more advanced potted plants, and can get another silver.
Zhao'er remembered that she had been saving for a long time, but she had never found time to settle the account, and her head hurt.
Thinking that if she did it herself, she might not be able to finish it overnight, so she couldn't help but hit Xue Tingxiang. She reached out and poked Xue Tingxiang's arm, and said, "You can read two books for me."
She doesn't seem to be begging for someone, and Xue Tingxiang doesn't even bother to tease her.
Zhao'er was very embarrassed. After thinking about it, he was unwilling. He poked him again, and his mouth became a lot sweeter: "You can play the abacus faster than me, and check the accounts faster than me. You are the head of our family, don't you care about the family affairs? ?"
Hearing this sentence, Xue Tingxiang's brows brightened, but he still held it.
Zhao'er glanced at him, fell to the side, and pretended to cry under Hong'er's cover: "Hong'er, you have to grow up quickly, when you grow up, help your mother plan to look at the account books, but don't learn Your father, your father will not feel bad for people."
"Mother, don't cry, Hong'er will grow up soon."
Xue Tingyan laughed angrily, and slapped his firm buttocks: "I don't feel sorry for you, who helped you read those accounts before!"
With that said, he went to the kang cabinet and took out the accounts that Zhao'er had saved. And spread it out on the kang table, put the abacus on it, and put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
At this time, Zhao'er approached and said flatly, "I knew you were the best."
Xue Tingxiang gave her a cold snort.
"According to this, it turns out that Zhao'er, you and your husband got married like this."
Wu Wanqiong's tone was a little strange, and Zhao'er subconsciously felt it was strange, but she couldn't think of anything strange. She looked at the other person's face and saw that her face was natural, her eyebrows and eyes were full of sighs, and after finishing speaking, she continued to do the needlework in her hand, and felt that she might be thinking too much.
In fact, Zhao'er was not very willing to bring up this topic, but when he was talking with Wu Wanqiong, he talked about it. Wu Wanqiong said that her husband was his father's student, and her father was a poor scholar. Seeing that he was motivated and eager to learn, he just reached the age, so he betrothed himself to the student.
After talking about himself, he asked her again. Zhao'er saw that the two usually get along well, and they would talk about each other's affairs when they had nothing to do, so they did not conceal that they were the bride of Xue Jiatong, which is why this happened.
Zhao'er has never been a person who likes to maliciously try to figure out people's temperament. After the matter is over, he turns his head and throws it behind his head. The two talk about other things. At this time, a guest comes to the door, and Wu Wanqiong hurriedly dropped his work and got up to say hello. guests.
Zhao'er picked up Wu Wanqiong's embroidery stretcher and looked at it. Seeing the vivid embroidery of the mandarin ducks playing in the water, he couldn't help but marvel at the superb embroidery skills.
And she can't do it. It's okay to make clothes and embroider a simple pattern. So complicated, you can only sigh. Fortunately, she wasn't in the mood to struggle with this kind of thing, so she put it down after looking at it.
The guest just came in to have a look, and left soon after. Wu Wanqiong walked back, just saw Zhao'er put down her embroidery stretcher, and said to her with a smile: "Zhao'er, do you like it? If you like it, wait for me to put this The auxiliary embroidery work is done, and then it will help you to do it on the skirt."
Zhao'er waved his hand quickly: "No, you have worked so hard to embroider, and besides, I can't wear such a fancy look."
"Then can it be made into a bellyband?"
Zhao'er immediately said: "Wan Qiong, I really don't need it. A gentleman doesn't take people's favor. Although I'm just a woman, I can't do such a thing. I see you embroidered this pattern for so long, so I still keep it for myself. Bar."
Wu Wanqiong didn't say more, just said: "I plan to help Hong'er make clothes, and then make the pattern of the little tiger. Hong'er was born fair and clean, and it will look good in it."
"What's the point of that?"
"What's there to be embarrassed about? I have to thank you for keeping me here to work. Hong'er is so cute that it's too late for me to like it. It's not in vain for him to call me auntie when making clothes for him."
Seeing her mentioning Hong'er, her brows and eyes suddenly looked fresh, Zhao'er hesitated for a while, and said, "Wan Qiong, your deceased husband has been gone for a few years, don't you have any plans to remarry?"
Wu Wanqiong was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head: "In this capital, I am alone, and I rarely interact with others. Besides, I don't want to marry again."
"You're still so young..."
Just as he was talking, he heard Hong'er's chattering voice from behind the door, mixed with Xue Tingyan's voice.
But it was Xue Tingxiang who was hired from the Hanlin Academy.
Xue Tingxiang had already changed his clothes, still the cyan robe he was used to wearing, but because of his slender figure, he was born clean and handsome, and he seemed to have a taste of elegance.
At this moment, he was talking to Hong'er with his head lowered. The father and son were holding hands, looking extra warm.
After Hong'er came in, he rushed towards Zhao'er.
After calling Sheng Niang cheerfully, she went to Wu Wanqiong and called Aunt Sheng.
Zhao'er went to Xue Tingyan's side and said with a smile, "You're off duty so early every day, aren't you afraid of going up to the peak and reprimanding you?"
In fact, she was just laughing, and Xue Tingxiang also said with a smile: "I went to the peak and saw that I was diligent and motivated, and it was too late to praise me, so how could you reprimand me. Besides, if I come back later, you I didn't want to suspect that my colleagues and I were going to drink that flower wine, but when I was sour and jealous, if I didn't let me go to bed at night, I would have been wronged to death."
Xue Tingxiang's words were a bit abrupt, but he never had a straight face in front of him, so he didn't think much about Zhao'er. I only felt a little embarrassed to talk about this kind of secret between husband and wife in front of Wu Wanqiong.
There is actually an allusion to drinking flower wine, and that's when Mao Badou and the others were still there.
Once Lin Yanran and Mao Badou had a quarrel, only afterward did they find out that it was Lin Yanran who smelled the scent of rouge on Mao Badou, but Lin Yanran didn't have that kind of rouge. The two of them went to drink flower wine with their fellow villagers.
In fact, they drank wine and didn't find a girl at all, and the two of them couldn't save face at that time, so they went there. But just because of this, Lin Yanran and Mao Badou had a fight, and after the fight, Li Datian was also implicated.
After finally persuading the other side to stop, the two went back to the room, and Zhao'er asked Xue Tingxiang if he had ever drunk flower wine.
In fact, it was just a passing sentence, and maybe he wanted to ask a little bit. Xue Tingxiang joked that Zhao'er was a big vinegar pot.
Zhao'er here was worried that Wu Wanqiong would listen to her, and Wu Wanqiong might feel embarrassed over there, so she dragged Hong'er to the door.
Seeing this move, she finally breathed a sigh of relief before continuing to talk to Xue Tingxiang.
Wu Wanqiong held a flower for Hong'er to play with, and couldn't restrain her eyes from looking over there.
Seeing that these two couples seem to have less scruples because there is no one around. Then Xue Tingxiang changed his gentle and elegant appearance, and actually started to move on Zhao'er.
From time to time, he would pinch the tip of her nose, or touch her cheek with his hand, or even hug her waist. And Zhao'er didn't seem to notice, and seemed to think it was nothing.
How did she know that Zhao'er was used to being swayed by Xue Tingxiang, so she felt nothing.
"Auntie, all the flowers are smashed by you."
Hong'er's voice made Wu Wanqiong wake up suddenly, and she realized that she had picked a flower from the flowerpot at the door, and wanted to play with it, but it was because she was too strong to squeeze the flowers. deformed.
"Oh, my aunt pinched in the wrong place. Auntie will pick another flower for Hong'er." After speaking, she hurriedly threw the rotten flower into the flowerpot and picked it again.
This flower is used to decorate the door, and some wild flowers are planted in it, which were transplanted when the small flowerbed was demolished before. Seeing that the child was prosperous, he was reluctant to throw it away, so he kept it in a flower pot, and usually left it in front of the store, so he didn't need to worry about it, he just needed to build it from time to time.
In order to cover up, Wu Wanqiong picked a few more flowers from the flowerpot and wrapped a small wreath around Hong'er for him to play with. On the other side, Xue Tingxiang looked over, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
"What are you looking at?" Zhao'er's voice suddenly sounded.
The indifferent face immediately turned into a warm spring breeze. Xue Tingxiang motioned for Zhao'er to look, and smiled: "I'm looking at that stinky boy, I don't know which girl I'm going to coax with the flowers."
Over there, Hong'er held a small wreath and ran away happily.
Zhao'er smiled and said, "Come and have a look, Wan Qiong should also get off work. If Hong'er is hungry, give him something to eat first, and I'll go back to cook later."
Xue Tingxiang nodded, but instead of leaving, he dragged Zhao'er to go inside.
"What are you doing?"
Xue Tingxuan nodded his cheek.
Zhao'er immediately said embarrassed: "You can do it, this is outside."
He still nodded his face with his finger, and then looked outside again, as if I won't move if you don't do it.
Zhao'er was anxious and embarrassed, and he was afraid that he would lose face when someone saw him in such a deadpan manner. He also knew that this guy was stubborn, and he would never give up if he wanted to do anything. He hurriedly stepped on his feet and touched his cheek, and Xue Tingxiang then went outside.
No one else saw all this, but Wu Wanqiong by the door caught it all in her eyes. Seeing Xue Tingxiang coming out, she hurriedly turned her head and looked at Honger not far away.
Xue Tingxiang passed by her. She had already passed by, but she took two steps back. Without looking at her, she said, "Zhao'er will let you off work."
After that, he left a shadow for her.