Nuan Nuan stayed in the imperial study for half the morning. After leaving the palace, she did not go back to Duke Anguo's mansion immediately. Instead, she took a detour to Ning's house.
In the Ning Mansion, Wen Wenwen and Ning Huaijie heard that Wen Nuan was coming, and they immediately went out to welcome him.
Warmth was brought all the way in by the concierge.
This is the first time for her to come to this Ning family after Wen Wen got married.
As she walked along, she admired the scenery of Ning Mansion Garden, which was also very poetic and picturesque.
It's similar to An Guogong's mansion. At a glance, you can tell that Ning Huaijie'an decorated it according to Gentle's preferences.
As soon as they arrived at the second door, Ning Huaijie and Wen Rou came out.
Wen Nuan smiled and greeted the two of them: "Eldest sister, eldest brother-in-law."
Wen Wenwen happily stepped forward and held Nuan Nuan's hand: "Sister Nuan, why are you here?"
Ning Huaijie smiled and said: "Your eldest sister invited you sisters over. After inviting you so many times, we finally came. Let's go and talk in the house first."
Several people walked inside and talked.
Wen Nuan smiled and said: "I've wanted to come here for a long time, but I really don't have time. I happened to ask my brother-in-law for help today."
Wen Wen glared at Wen Wen: "I know you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. Have you had your meal?"
This time happened to be almost lunch time.
If Wen Nuan had arrived a quarter of an hour later, Wen Wen and Ning Huaijie would have already prepared the meal.
"Not yet, just came out of the palace."
Come out of the palace and come directly to Ning Huaijie
Wen Wen knew it must be a big deal. She hurriedly said to Ning Huaijie, "Then take Sister Nuan to the study to talk! I'll have someone prepare lunch."
Nuan Nuan smiled: "That's not necessary, let's talk while eating! I'm hungry."
Wen Nuan knew that the eldest wife of the Ning family and the eldest master of the Ning family, as well as the people in other houses, and the people in the clan had returned to Jianghuai Mansion. Only Ning Huaijie and his wife lived here, so they didn't pay attention to etiquette. Come to your door.
However, she originally thought that Ning Huaijie should be busy and not in the mansion, so she wanted to stop by to have dinner with Wen Wen, and then asked her to send a message to Ning Huaijie, so that Ning Huaijie could find her at Anguo Duke's mansion when he was free. .
After hearing this, Wen Wenwen hurriedly asked the maid next to her to prepare the meal and asked the kitchen to add some of Wen Wen's favorite dishes.
Wen Wen knows that Wen Wen likes to eat in the yard, so lunch is served in the pavilion in the garden.
This pavilion is built on the lake. It is midsummer now, when the lotus flowers are in bloom. The breeze blows, and the faint fragrance of lotus blows, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Because there are ice trays placed around the pavilion, it doesn't feel too hot.
While eating, Nuan Nuan expressed his intention.
"What do you think of Liu Xiaoen, elder brother-in-law?"
Ning Huaijie didn't have much contact with him, only two or three times in the past two days. He met countless people in the mall, and everyone was in business, so he had a good impression. Moreover, the Liu family in the south has long heard that the people in the Liu family are kind in doing business.
Ning Huaijie said truthfully: "I have been in contact with him three times, and I feel that this person is quite upright and trustworthy. He is a principled person who does what he does and what he does not do. He is good at communication and is a well-rounded person. He has great ambitions in his heart. , wants to pursue a big career, which can be seen from his desire to open the Beijing-South Channel."
Ning Huaijie once heard Nuan Nuan and Nalan Jinnian propose opening a north-south canal in Anguo Palace.
So when I heard what Liu Xiaoen said that day, I immediately told Nuan Nuan.
However, Nalan Jinnian said at that time that this matter was not possible for the time being.
He didn't understand why it didn't work before. After all, he knew that Nalan Jinnian was very rich. But now he understood. It turned out that Nalan Jinnian had probably thought that the Four Kingdoms would be in chaos.
The world is not at peace, and he dare not act rashly.
She glanced at him tenderly: "You think very highly of him."
Ning Huaijie smiled: "They are both in business. He has something I should appreciate."
At least, I have never thought of such a feat as opening a waterway connecting the north and the south!
He only knew how to donate some clothes to the soldiers of the imperial court, provide disaster relief to the poor people, and donate some money to poor scholars to study and gain fame, so that the Ning family had a good reputation as a family that accumulated good deeds.
And Liu Xiaoen's idea can be said to be a pioneering undertaking, a feat in which he spent all his family property.
If you succeed, you will be famous, and if you fail... then the Liu family will have nothing.
But digging the channel also has risks. Floods in the south may affect a wider area in the future!
You know, the border between the north and the south is a plain, and half of the fertile fields in the entire Nalan Kingdom are in that area. If there are floods and the food harvest is lost, it will really...
The consequences could be disastrous!
So Ning Huaijie admired Liu Xiaoen for daring to think like this.
Nuan Nuan nodded: "I understand. The eldest brother-in-law makes an appointment. I want to see him."
Ning Huaijie said that he was sociable and well-rounded. Wen Nuan can be seen from the fact that he got to know the third prince through Zhu Huale, and then took the opportunity to get to know Ning Huaijie, and then asked Ning Huaijie to speak for him, and then hooked up with himself or Nalan Jinnian. .
Being sociable and well-rounded is also a skill. If not, the Liu family's business would not be more prosperous in his hands! As long as this kind of person is not a wallflower, it will be fine.
But Nuan Nuan didn't want to covet him, just because of his proposal
And Wen Nuan remembered that Ning Huaijie said that the opening of the Beijing-Southern Channel was just a ambition in his heart. He had never told the second person that Ning Huaijie should not laugh at him.
What does this imply
This indirectly told Ning Huaijie that he did not have a very close relationship with Zhu Huale and the third prince.
And he wanted to rely on Ning Huaijie to catch up with Nalan Jinnian to do this.
This shows that Liu Xiaoen is still a discerning person.
If he had told the third prince about this matter, Nuan Nuan would not have mentioned it to the emperor today.
To avoid seeming to take away the credit from the third prince.
But that day at the racecourse, Nuan Nuan could see clearly that the third prince didn't even look at him, not even looking at him from the end of his eyes.
The Third Prince's friends are all men of letters, and he has no businessman friends around him. He is very aloof, and no businessman of the first generation can fall into his eyes.
Zhu Huale also acted condescendingly in front of Liu Xiaoen, and he probably just regarded him as the enemy. The purpose of taking him out to eat, drink and have fun is just to get him to pay.
Nuan Nuan guessed that Liu Xiaoen also understood in his heart. Therefore, he did not mention the opening of the Beijing-South Channel to them, but he did mention it after meeting Ning Huaijie.
Ning Huaijie nodded: "Okay, where do you want to arrange to meet? He will send me some rice noodles tomorrow, and we have made an appointment to meet at Tao Ranju."
Wen Wen said casually: "Why don't you come to our house? You meet him, and after you get the rice noodles, you just invite him to come to our house, and think of it as a thank you. Then Sister Nuan will also come to play with Wen Xin and the others tomorrow morning, just like Wouldn’t it be enough if we happened to meet him?”