Chapter 121 Undercurrent

After the city gate was closed, Qin Lao had been staying at home for a while now, not going out much, and occasionally old friends such as Kang Xian would come over to get together, but it was impossible to play chess as often as before. Ning Yi and Nie Yunzhu came over today, the time was already afternoon, after a little conversation in the living room, Ning Yi and Qin Lao walked around and chatted in the courtyard outside the study, and Nie Yunzhu was called over by Yun Niang and Mrs. Qin, they probably already knew about Yunzhu, and they were quite cordial.

The previous plan to let Nie Yunzhu recognize Qin Lao as his father-in-law was only mentioned by Ning Yi, and the relationship between Qin Lao and Nie Yunzhu had not yet been officially clarified, so it was better for Ning Yi to talk about this matter at this time.

Because of some problems that arose in this matter, Ning Yi naturally couldn't say that it had nothing to do with himself and Nie Yunzhu, and of course, he wouldn't think that Nie Yunzhu had any responsibility. It's hard to say whether it's right or wrong, but since it happened, it's the right way to deal with it and not cause trouble to people. Fortunately, Qin Lao also understands people, and when Ning Yi roughly said what happened in Yancui Tower last time, he also understood what the other party meant, and understood why the other party would mention this.

However, after a long period of silence, he did not immediately show his attitude towards it.

"This year's floods, the scale of the upstream disaster, have not been encountered for decades. Although the Jiangning area has been closed, it is calmer than in previous years, and Liheng knows why? Qin Lao paused, "In Jiangzhou, although the disaster is serious, there are more than 200,000 homeless victims in the shelter organization at this time, and the number is still increasing, but ...... It is said that the order is in order, there is no epidemic, and Fenzhou, Jinzhou and other places in Hedong Province that have been affected by the bursting of the Yellow River, Langzhou and Guizhou here are also properly resettled......

"Oh." Hearing Qin Lao talk about this, Ning Yi nodded, since the city gate was closed, it was difficult for information from outside to come in, and Ning Yi didn't care much about it, listening to him, he probably knew about these things outside of Jiang Ning.

"Jiangzhou, Fenzhou, Jinzhou, Langzhou, Guizhou and other places, most of them use or refer to those methods of Liheng, although it seems simple, but the effect is very good, I have been thinking about the truth recently. But in any case, hundreds of thousands of people have benefited from Liheng. Liheng came over today, but he just talked to me about some trivial matters of honor......"

Qin Lao laughed, but Ning Yi also shook his head, and said with a smile: "One yard is one yard, originally took advantage of it, Qin Lao, you are not informal, it is a favor if you agree, and it is reasonable not to agree." After having a favor, it will not be good if you get an inch further, Qin Lao, you can not care, but I can't take it for granted, this is the truth of being a man. It's hard to say whether this matter is right or wrong, but reality is reality after all, and all kinds of problems, if you add more trouble, it will not be good. The most important thing is not that I don't want to go, but that Yunzhu feels that I can't go......"

Qin Lao nodded, and then did not speak, after a long time, the two set up the chessboard in the study, and the old man said: "A few days ago, I heard Ming Gong talk about your conversation with Li Pin. Liheng has recently met with Ming Yun? ”

Ning Yi shook his head: "There have been a lot of things recently, but he found a pair of eccentric siblings to come to me for apprenticeship." Oh, it's okay if I haven't seen it, I heard Brother Lu say that he might scold me when we meet......"

"Heh, it's the pair of sisters and brothers of Zhou Yong's family, the materials that can be made are just limited by their identity, and if they really want to do something in the future, I'm afraid it's not easy." Qin Lao smiled, raised a chess piece, and then paused, "It's also because of Liheng's statement, I have discussed with Mingyun for a few days, and then I heard about the matter of Sufu, Mingyun said it is complicated, does Liheng have a count in his heart?" ”

"I guess it can be solved."

Ning Yi didn't take this matter to heart, and replied casually, Qin Lao looked at it, and then finally dropped the chess piece: "That's fine." That Li Pin is your friend, I heard Mingyun talk about it, and he is also quite talented, if he goes to Beijing, I can repair a book on his behalf and introduce him. ”

"So I thank Dexin." Ning Yi laughed, "By the way, that official shì lang Fu Ying, it won't be with you before." ”

"kid......" Qin Lao scolded with a smile, and then sighed as well, "Then I resigned when Li Pin was elected, but Fu Ying was indeed promoted by me back then, this person is a little biased, but he is still doing good things." In some matters, it is also common for the party to act in harmony with the DPRK and the Central Committee, and I can't take care of it too much. Hearing Mingyun say that Li Pin's policy that day was exactly at odds with Fu Ying's policy of adding money, and his words were a little stronger, Shizi, this is the case, there are articles that are not shocking and die every year, who knows that Fu Ying's reaction is also so fierce, it is estimated that he was sarcastic by some political enemies in person, hey, this kind of thing is ......", from beginning to end, Qin Siyuan did not mention Ning Yi's conversation with Li Pin that day, the two played a game of chess, just said some trivial things, of course, there are also some situations in the field, when Ning Yi and Nie Yunzhu said goodbye and left, It was nearly evening. Neither side mentioned their attitude towards the matter of the "righteous girl" again.

"Liheng...... Already said? On the way back to the small building by the river, Nie Yunzhu asked softly. Ning Yi nodded: "I said, but they didn't nod or shake their heads." ”

"Huh?"

"Heh, Mrs. Qin, they are kind to you."

"Well, tǐng is good." Yun Zhu smiled and nodded, "I'm afraid that it will affect them in turn." ”

"Let's go as a relative in the future, you don't have to deliberately recognize something, after a while, it will be a matter of course, they are all good people, and they will become friends or something."

“…… Well. Yunzhu thought about it and nodded, "Aunt Yun asked me to accompany her to the street tomorrow to buy things, and let me bring Jin'er with me." ”

"tǐng good 龗的."

Sending Yun Zhu home, when Ning Yi was about to turn back, the other side spoke and stopped him.

"Liheng, the matter of the Su family ......" Yunzhu looked at him, thought for a while, and then found the words, "You must be able to do a good job." ”

Ning Yi was stunned, and then laughed: "Don't worry." ”

He made it all the way home and it was already time to eat.

After that, the time gradually entered August, this is serious, chaotic, but it seems to be as stable as the past month, except for some real heart, there are brains of traders, perhaps few people can see clearly what happened in the weaving industry in Jiangning this month, those surging undercurrents, what kind of trajectory there is.

The city gate has been closed, the days have to go on as usual, it seems that every day is the same as in the past, work, life, the green building is still singing every night, the victims inside and outside the city have become more and more embarrassed, if it were not for the use of new disaster control methods in several states outside to reduce the pressure on this side, I am afraid that the depression in the city will be more serious now, of course, even if it is serious, it is only something that can be felt at the level of ordinary civilians.

The Weaving Bureau's royal business will be brought to the surface for the first time in late August, and it is said that there will be a gathering of the weaving industry to celebrate the relief efforts in the name of this disaster, and then the interested merchants will bring out the cloth and present it to the royal family. The decision has been made, but the news is only flowing under the sī, for example, to celebrate the disaster relief, the merchants must also take practical actions to give enough porridge and rice to share the pressure on the government.

In the past, several merchants who took over the imperial merchants naturally did not give up, and the intentions of the Su family, the Xue family, and the Wu family to the imperial merchants also drove some medium-sized merchants, turning the recent situation of the weaving industry into a muddy water. Among them, although Su Boyong was paralyzed and Su Tan'er was bedridden, the momentum shown by the Su family was still the strongest. At the end of July, Su Boyong's injuries stabilized, and after it was made public, Mrs. Su's running and various relationships finally worked, and the murderer Chen Er, who assassinated Su Boyong, confessed that he was indeed instructed to assassinate Su Boyong, and the Su family killed his wife and children, which was purely a false accusation.

Who is behind Chen Er, he can't find out, because he doesn't know what to do. But after the bad reputation was washed away, there was no doubt that the Su family's bargaining chips to win the imperial merchants had increased, and the morale of the shopkeepers and stewards of the big house was greatly boosted. The second and third rooms are relatively silent, even if the Su family is forced to death by sitting down, the foreign business will be affected is limited, but the imperial businessmen bear the brunt, and now the old lady is opening the way for the imperial businessmen, could it be that the Su family will really be helmed by Su Tan'er in the future?

In the midst of the chaos, no one can see what will happen at the end of August. The second and third rooms seem to be calm, and the Xue family, the Wu family, and some other merchants are also competing with the imperial merchants in their own ways, talking about business, looking for relationships, and the yīn plots and calculations behind them do not appear on the surface. During this period, Ning Yi also began to dissolve into the big family of Jiangning Weaving as the temporary helmsman of the Su family's big house.

He participated in some entertainment, and of course he also met some people - in the past, he was a scholar, so he didn't have to participate in these things, and now that Su Tan'er is sick in Chuáng, he also has some necessary entertainment to participate. The most important of these periods is probably the weaving shop meeting at the end of July, which is held once a month. Because in Jiangning, the weaving industry also has its own guild, and the head of the line is now the leader of the Jiangning cloth industry. During this period, Ning Yi also met Wu Chenghou, the father of the two brothers Wu Qilong and Wu Qihao, as the head of the line, this is also a middle-aged man who seems to be modest and prestigious, and he also talked to Ning Yi for a long time: "Everyone belongs to the same industry, although they are opponents, they are also mentors and friends. I have long heard of the name of Li Hengxian's nephew, and the Su family has a lot of chances of winning this time in the matter of imperial business. Some words of the Xue family, the virtuous nephew doesn't have to put it in his heart......"

The reason why he said this is probably because the Xue family and the Su family have long had a disagreement, according to Chan'er Juan'er, every time it is the Wu family who mediates, this time I saw Xue Jin and Xue Yan's father Xue Sheng, there was also a little lukewarm, but Xue Yan had a good attitude towards Ning Yi, and specially asked Ning Yi for a meal and apologized for what happened last time.

In addition, there are Chen Dixin of the Chen family, Lu Tianhai of the Lu family, etc., etc., in the past month, Ning Yi probably knew the entire outline of Jiangning's weaving industry, and these people in the weaving industry probably had a simple understanding of him.

There must be talents, the first talent, but when the scholar enters the business house, he is obviously a little at a loss. Although he didn't participate in much entertainment, he spoke with grace and temperament, but he also had a bookish anger that couldn't be changed. The Su family is in trouble, this rich man obviously wants to help, but inexperienced things are inexperienced, and after a month, he actually didn't do anything.

In fact, after placing an oolong on Yu Fang's side, he did only two things in total.

The first thing is that he negotiated a business, which was originally a business with no suspense, but since it was signed by Ning Yi, of course it had to be put on his head. There's not much to talk about, but it's one thing. On the other hand, after racking his brains, he made a reform to one of the shops.

At that time, in the eyes of everyone, Ning Yi seemed to be very confident, he racked his brains and thought about it for several days, and then formulated some rules, and then let the guys in one of the shops use them first. He trained the guys for three days, saying "welcome" when customers came in, and then standardizing the use of words and adding a lot of seemingly specialized terms. However, this reform was only carried out for three days, because they scared away a lot of customers because it made people feel cramped.

As a result, this scholarly reform failed in this way, and became a joke in Jiangning Weaving, and Ning Yi seemed to have been hit, and since then, in addition to the fixed daily inspection, he has stopped doing more.

During this period, he also met with He Fang, of course, he did not talk too much about the affairs of the imperial merchants, and he also went to collect business with a few shopkeepers and met with some officials of the Weaving Bureau, but it did not play a big role. In the past, some people felt that he would not be so simple - for example, Xue Jin lost much interest after more than 20 days, because it was very simple, a scholar entering the business world should be like this.

In the matter of the imperial businessman, this guy has no effect, maybe it is a cover at all. And after that, no one relaxed their vigilance, because the Su family's shopkeepers have been operating continuously under Ning Yi's performance, pushing the voice of the imperial merchant to the highest.

There is no scheming, during this period, the Su family has been promoting the process of taking the imperial merchant in an extremely upright way, whether it is the Xue family or the Wu family, there is no way to do such a thing. Because in the final analysis, the Su family has been preparing for several years, but they have not, and if they have a thin background, at least on the surface, they can only fall behind.

During this period, Zhou Pei and Zhou Junwu, two sisters and brothers, often came to the Su family's cloth shop to wait for Ning Yi to come over, and gradually got along with each other in a slightly strange way......

August, which seemed to be calm, boring, tense and monotonous, gradually went to the end of the month......